They’re on the centre of excessive decibel electoral sparring. However what does Bihar have to supply them?

Bihar’s allies in govt, JDU and BJP, used Stalin’s cease in Bihar – he was there to assist ally Congress – to revive earlier DMK slurs in opposition to Bihari migrants in Tamil Nadu. Stalin and his ministers sought to focus as an alternative on contemporary MoSPI knowledge on Thursday that topped TN as India’s most industrialised state and high employer of manufacturing facility employees. Bihar and TN couldn’t be additional aside. Bihar stays caught on the backside, caste networks cementing its place in poverty and poor human improvement. TN, regardless of its personal caste politics, has pushed forward, steadily progressing economically, and in inclusivity and human improvement efficiency. Definitely, TN’s success shines brighter additionally as a result of Bihar units the bar so low.

Poles aside – one’s society led by higher castes, the opposite Dravidian – but the 2 states are inseparable, sure by an limitless stream of migrants. Bihar pushes them out, TN pulls them in. Anti-migrant politics is central to political proper’s enchantment globally. It’s no totally different in TN – small events like NTK are ever-ready to whip up migrant hate. Two years in the past, TN authorities swiftly tackled misinformation about assaults on Bihari migrants. Notably, Chennai and Patna collectively killed the try at stirring bother. Now, forward of Bihar’s election later this yr and TN’s in about six months, the Bihari migrant finds himself, and his destiny, on the centre of political sparring.

However the greater tragedy is that these migrants – who construct India’s gleaming cities –- barely get to train their vote. There are considerations that hundreds of migrants’ names are lacking from Bihar’s SIR draft rolls. An excellent quantity stands to lose jobs in TN’s export hubs publish Trump tariffs. However earlier than rallying them to the hustings – in the event that they’re a part of the voter rolls – Nitish & Tejashwi may wish to spell out what Bihar has to supply.

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