Hyderabad, Nov. 5 -- Lalu Yadav, Nitish Kumar, and Tejashwi Yadav have rather proudly spoken of how the Bihari migrants have a critical role in the economies of other states which host them. These hapless migrants find succour of a kind, with the majority of them in menial and low-tier employment, mostly in the service sector in Mumbai, National Capital Region, Kolkata, and thinly spread across several states, as far as in Kerala. Though this indicates a failure in boosting the economy of Bihar. It is part of the BIMARU states.

Prashant Kishor, the political strategist who is now a politician leading his newly-founded Jan Suraj party and fighting the Assembly elections in Bihar, has a contrarian view: the Biharis ought not to have reason...