Hyderabad, Feb. 14 -- Nine months after the Delhi election, none but Bihar, the state overwhelmingly dominated by the lower-income group population, will go to the polls. Following the relatively poor performance in last year's Lok Sabha election, the Bharatiya Janata Party won Assembly elections in Haryana, Maharashtra and Delhi, all three states having a much larger share of upper-class and middle-class voters than Bihar.

Contrary to this it lost disastrously in Jharkhand, which like Bihar, too has a big chunk of voters hailing from a very low-income group. Though Jammu and Kashmir also went to the poll, the social equation there was totally different, so the BJP could not win.

Thus, the coming Assembly election in essentially agraria...