India, Nov. 16 -- As the BJP's poll observer in Bihar, former Maharashtra minister Vinod Tawde addressed the caste issue which has for long been a decisive factor in the state's electoral narrative.

Not willing to take any chances, given Bihar's chaotic political profile, the BJP high command asked him to study the fluctuating caste equations in the state. "Such an elaborate exercise helps the party reach out to the last person in a village," Tawde told HT.

The BJP-led five-party alliance, including Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) and the Lok Janshakti Party, swept the state assembly polls, decimated the Opposition's Grand Alliance and bagged a two-thirds majority. The BJP, for the first time, emerged as the single largest party, win...