The state election in Bihar due to start next week will be the first of any sort since the outbreak of COVID-19 in India, and a strong performance from the BJP would suggest that goodwill for the ruling national party remains intact amid the largest recession in modern history. Bihar has also been one of the states to recently implement labour reforms. If the ruling coalition performs well, another conclusion might be that labour market liberalisation is no longer seen as electorally-unviable.
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