Bihar Elections 2025: What are parties promising in their manifestos?

Story truthful far: Battling incumbency, the NDA rolled retired its slew of promises – 1 crore jobs, 7 expressways, medical colleges connected Thursday (October 30, 2025), urging voters to take Nitish Kumar arsenic Chief Minister erstwhile again. Apart from ample infrastructure and economical investments successful Bihar, the NDA has promised freebies successful power, ration, education, medical treatment and hike successful stipend to farmers, fishermen and women moving self-help groups (SHGs). 

Countering NDA’s promises, the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) has offered to extremity interaction employment successful authorities jobs, accomplishment census, jobs, loan waivers, medical colleges and freebies successful power, education, agriculture and to all women. In its manifesto arsenic ‘Tejashwi Pran’, named aft its CM prime - Tejashwi Yadav, INDIA has besides promised a slew of legislations against exam insubstantial leak, fiscal harassment, preservation cap and a relook astatine the ‘liquor ban’ presently imposed successful Bihar.  

INDIA has besides promised contiguous merchandise of mediocre and Dalits jailed for usurpation of liquor ban and exclusion of traditional spirits like Mahua and Toddy from liquor ban. Both mentioned ‘country liquors’ person intoxicant percentages generally ranging between 4-8%, but immoderate oak-aged versions contain almost 40% alcohol. 

Here’s a look astatine what these parties’ manifestos promise in antithetic sectors

Jobs

Like the past predetermination cycle, INDIA has remained focused on tackling Bihar’s unemployment. Their manifesto has promised to contented an authoritative order giving one authorities occupation per household within 20 days of govt formation and wrong 20 months, the occupation process volition start. Other job-related promises include making all contractual and outsourced employees permanent, providing skill-based jobs successful IT parks, special Economic Zones (SEZ), industries based successful dairy and agriculture, healthcare, farming, nutrient processing, renewable energy, logistics and tourism. INDIA besides vows to re-implement the Old pension scheme, issue domicile certificate to springiness Bihar denizens penchant successful jobs, preservation for differently-abled persons successful authorities jobs. 

The scale of NDA’s promises is no different inspite of being successful powerfulness since 2017. NDA promises one crore jobs and skill census which would pb to mounting up mega skill centres in each district

Women

The promises to women by some coalitions alteration successful nature. With promises like creating one crore ‘lakhpati’ Didis and financial aid upto ₹2 lakhs, NDA has focused connected economical empowerment without nonstop payment transfers (DBT).  

On the different hand, INDIA has promised to make all self-help group (SHG) workers under ‘Jeevika Didi’ scheme as government employees with ₹30,000 wage per month, total loan waiver and a monthly stipend of ₹2000 for women-led SHGs. It has besides offered a monthly stipend of ₹ 2500 to each women from December, totalling ₹30,000 yearly and a law against harassment by micro-finance companies for loan/interest repayment. 

Infrastructure

NDA’s biggest transportation has been the ‘Double-engine’ authorities – BJP successful some Centre and State. With the BJP at the helm successful Centre, NDA has promised to establish satellite township crossed cities, a caller metropolis named ‘New Patna’, international airports astatine Darbhanga, Purnea and Bhagalpur, ten new home airports, seven expressways, railway tracks spanning 3600 kms and metro trains successful 4 cities. 

It has besides vowed to pump industrial investment upto ₹ 1 lakh crore, build ten new concern parks, manufacturing units successful each district, a ‘Backend hub’ successful Bihar worth ₹50 lakh crores, 5 mega nutrient parks, textile and silk parkland successful Mithila, defence corridor, semiconductor park, planetary tech and a fintech city in the adjacent 5 years. Other infrastructure plans include setting up hundred MSME parks, 50,000 cottage industries. Many specified large infrastructure promises have been announced successful the Finance Minister’s Union Budget speeches for the past 2 years.  

Its astir ambitious committedness is to establish an precocious flood management system to make Bihar flood-free. Bihar witnessed massive floods during the monsoon play this twelvemonth erstwhile the Election Commission conducted the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of elector rolls successful the state, deleting 47 lakh names. 

Being retired of power in the Centre since 2014, INDIA has constricted its promises mostly to the State – mounting up industrial clusters, upgrading district hospitals, mounting up ace specialty hospitals. However, it has besides promised five caller expressways.

Education

Special absorption has been fixed to acquisition by some coalitions. NDA’s promises see a ₹5000 crore-fund to renovate territory schools, establishing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) hub via centres of excellence, autonomous aesculapian colleges successful each district, a super speciality hospital for pediatric and autism care and sports centres in each territory for registered sports. 

INDIA has promised to physique an Education city spanning 2000 acres, women colleges successful each territory and degree colleges in 136 areas wherever nary beryllium currently. Providing monetary alleviation to student, INDIA has promised to waive fees for competative exams and escaped question to and from exam centres, strict probe into paper leaks . It has besides promised a law to restrict transfer/posting of teachers, healthcare workers within 70 km of their homes.

Backward communities

Extremely Backward Castes (EBC)

The EBCs constitute the largest bloc (36%) in Bihar arsenic per the state’s 2022 caste census – making them a wooing people for some coalitions. 

The NDA has promised fiscal help upto ₹10 lakhs to EBCs like Tanti, Tatama, Nishad, Mallah, Kevat, Goangoti, Bind, Noniya, Teli, Tamoli, Badhai, Dhanuk, Lahor, Kumar, Nai, Shilpakar, Tateri, Mali, Chandravanshi, Halwai, Kanu, Dangi, Turah, Amaat, Kevart, Rajavanshi and Gadereya.  A peculiar committee headed by a retired Supreme Court justice volition beryllium acceptable to survey and advise the authorities connected steps to amended EBCs’ social and economical conditions, reads NDA’s manifesto. 

In contrast, INDIA has promised amended practice with 30% preservation successful panchayat and municipality bodies for EBCs, interest-free currency transportation of ₹5 lakhs for 5 years to beryllium fixed to Nai, Kumar, Badhai, Lohar, Mochi and Mali communities.

SC/STs and minorities

Cash transfers diagnostic successful some coalitions’ manifestos for Scheduled Castes (SC). NDA has promised a monthly stipend of ₹2000 to SC students, boarding schools and peculiar task money for SC students and moving youths. However, STs and minorities do not find a notation successful their manifesto.

On the different hand, INDIA has promised to fund 200 SC students yearly if they privation to pursue higher studies abroad. It has promised To get a constitutional amendment passed to break 50% preservation bounds successful state, 20% preservation for SCs and hike successful quota for STs arsenic per colonisation successful municipality and panchayat bodies. For minorities, INDIA’s promises are conceptual – upholding their constitutional rights and non-implementation of the amended Waqf Act.

Farmers/Fishermen

Cash benefits feature largely in all promises to farmers and fishermen by NDA and INDIA. For farmers, NDA has promised three cash transfers of ₹3000, totalling ₹9000 yearly, farm investment upto ₹1 lakh crore, warrant to purchase crops (rice, wheat, corn and pulses) astatine Minimum Support Price and to double crop production with absorption on self-dependence successful pulse production. For fishermen, NDA volition supply two cash transfers of ₹4500, totalling ₹9000. It has besides promised to double fish production and acceptable up chilling and processing centres across Bihar. 

Its rival INDIA’s promises echo a revival of previous farming operation - guarantee to acquire crops at MSP, revive farm mandis and strengthen Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) in each district. 

Workers

For workers, NDA promises financial assistance and accomplishment help along with a provision of life insurance upto ₹4 lakhs for auto, e-rickshaw and taxi drivers. 

INDIA, connected the different hand, has decided to strengthen its UPA-era scheme – Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA). It has promised to hike daily wages of MNREGA workers to ₹300 and increase the minimum fig of days to 200 days. Focusing connected migrant labourers, INDIA promises a labour census and consequent training, a separate section for migrant labourers with a database to support grounds of each such labourers. ‘Bihar Mitra centres’ will be established for migrant workers successful Mumbai, Delhi, Surat, Bengaluru and Ludhiana to code these workers troubles. It has besides promised to double salaries of gram panchayat workers and start pension for old gram panchayat workers.

Freebies for poor

Tackling the economically weaker sections basal needs, NDA has promised them free ration, free electricity upto 125 units, escaped aesculapian treatment upto ₹5 lakhs, 50 lakh new pucca houses and societal security pension. Girl students tin avail escaped education from Kindergarten (KG) to Post-Graduate (PG) with nutritious mid-day meals.  

INDIA has promised a monthly stipend of ₹1500 for widows and senior citizens respectively while differently abled citizens will get ₹3000. It has besides announced free electricity upto 200 units, escaped beingness insurance upto ₹25 lakhs for mediocre families.

Religious tourism and arts

Tourism and religion person been a changeless diagnostic successful each BJP manifestos crossed states – often promising to physique ‘corridors’ oregon ‘circuits’ astir past shrines. In Bihar, BJP has announced it volition physique a Vishnupad and Mahabodh corridor, develop circuits spanning shrines of the Ramayan, Lord Buddha and the river Ganga respectively. With plans to boost tourism and film, it has promised one lakh green homestays, a Film city in Bihar, an Arts university and a newly-proposed Bihar schoolhouse of play and television. 

Apart from NDA and INDIA, Jan Suraaj Party – led by canvass strategist Prashant Kishor is successful the canvass fray in Bihar, but is yet to merchandise its manifesto. Bihar’s 243-seat Assembly goes to polls successful 2 phases connected November 6 and 11 and results volition beryllium declared connected November 14.