India, Nov. 14 -- As early trends in results of the Bihar assembly election 2025 started to stream in, three broad themes appear to be dominant.

One, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that appeared to be heading towards a repeat or even improvement of its 2020 assembly election tally of 74, has managed to consolidate a cadre in a state where mass, freewheeling politics has been the norm so far.

"There is no doubt that BJP has put in place a cadre, something that it had lacked all these years," said political analyst Prabhat Singh.

The second and perhaps the most important direction is yet another return of Nitish Kumar, who is already the longest serving chief minister of Bihar. His JD(U) looks to improve on his 2020 performance of 43 a...