Lalu Prasad Yadav- Ruin of Bihar Economy

In 1980s, Bihar failed to grow fast enough to keep up with the rest of the country. Bihar’s recorded a growth rate of 2.3%, while India’s averaged 3.2% during 1980s. Then Lalu Yadav came to power in 1990 which coincided with the onset of the Economic liberalization. Bihar continued to decline, bottoming out at 32% in 2005. Since then, there has been a recovery, the recovery was coincided with onset of Chief Ministership of Nitish Kumar supported by BJP.

Bihar’s NDP per capita relative to India’s