Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part E (2025)

This paper aims to discuss 2025 Bihar election which demonstrated that the older mode of politics was no longer sufficient to explain political behaviour as it used to be the case with the older model of politics which was based on the concept of caste. Caste had ceased to be significant, yet new sub-identities and aspirations to groups took on an even greater influence. The women became an independent group of voters influenced by the access to welfare and safety issues, and an increase in financial agency. The young people were not as devoted to caste, having been led by migration, mobility ideals, and frustration with lack of jobs to seek alternatives such as Jan Suraaj. Intra-group division was also manifested in the Muslim community as some of them turned over to AIMIM. According to these tendencies, the identity becomes increasingly diversified and the voter is also guided not only by caste unity but also by the needs of classes, by gender experiences and symbolic appreciation. Social media also directed political impressions and collective accounts. In general, the election represents a transition to movable caste blocs to more permeable, overlapping identities due to gender, class, the young generation dreams, and new political communications.