Bihar 2025: A Turning Point or Managed Democracy

There’s a real possibility that the INDIA alliance could form the next government in Bihar  the public mood is shifting, and anti-incumbency is stronger than ever. But beneath the surface, the story of our democracy remains the same.

Bureaucrats manage logistics, corporates fund parties, and voters are kept emotionally divided. Many people still vote out of identity, loyalty, or short-term gain rather than informed choice. The poor and disabled often stand first in line to vote, yet they rarely understand how the political machinery truly works.

They see dozens of parties campaigning on TV, but at the polling booth, only two dominate the EVM. What most don’t realize is that the same parties which fight in public often maintain quiet regional or financial understandings behind closed doors.

I would call a binary regime model where  power  kept system  for Elites stability.

This illusion of competition keeps people believing they have a choice  while real control remains with a handful of political families, bureaucrats, and corporate networks.

What we call democracy today is not governance by the people. it’s managed perception.

when Voters found  missing seats  of there party whom they see on TV/Channel felt betrayed and confused at the polling stations

When the EVM screen flashed only RJD or BJP  with no Jan Suraaj or allied candidates or party in sight  the game was already rigged, not in machines, but in minds.

Those names that did appear on the EVM never campaigned, never promoted themselves   it’s as if these parties placed them quietly in the background just to make the EVM look democratic, giving voters the illusion of choice.

Most of these voters are hardworking, poor citizens with little understanding of political systems. The major parties deliberately keep information incomplete to maintain an illusion, while the media  often paid  amplifies their voices and projects fake confidence of victory.

In truth, it’s a rigged system.
In an age where online banking handles trillions securely, blockchain ensures transparency, and DNA can verify identity with atomic accuracy, relying on outdated paper-based elections is nothing but a lie.

This isn’t democracy  it’s political illusion at its finest.

Somewhere, these patterns have seen into our education, justice, and judiciary systems.
This is what has become of the land of Buddha   when we stopped believing in his ideals of truth, wisdom, and compassion, we lost the very soul of what once guided us.