Prohibition: Nitish Kumar’s 2016 Liquor Ban Becomes Flashpoint Ahead 2025 Bihar Assembly Elections
As Bihar heads into the 2025 Assembly elections, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s 2016 liquor prohibition policy has re-emerged as a polarizing issue—one that is both a legacy-defining reform and a lightning rod for political debate. Nearly a decade after Kumar’s government banned the sale and consumption of alcohol across the state, the prohibition gambit is…