Tejashwi Yadav Ranked as Most Preferred CM Face For Bihar Elections 2025

Tejashwi Yadav has recently emerged as the most preferred Chief Minister of Bihar for the Bihar elections 2025. This revelation was done in a recent C-Voter survey related to the results of the upcoming Bihar elections 2025. While this is good news for RJD and Tejashwi Yadav, Nitish Kumar is struggling to keep up.

Nitish Kumar who is the recent Chief Minister of Bihar got the third rank in this. Prashant Kishor who is the founder of Jan Suraaj Party (former political strategist at the Bhartiya Janata Party) has gained second position in this popularity based ranking.

Let’s delve into the details of the findings of this survey and it can predict the results of the Bihar assembly elections 2025. We are provided a table of contents below :

Tejashwi Yadav Most Preferred Bihar CM

According to a recent C-Voter Bihar Survey 2025, Tejashwi Yadav who is from the Rashtriy Janata Dal (RJD) party gained the top spot with around 35.5% approval ratings. A previous survey in February 2025 revealed a 40.6% approval rating for Tejashwi Yadav, so there is a slight drop but he still remains the most popular face for the Chief Minister’s post in Bihar.

Political observers speculate that this is because of his Yadav votebank which is a major part of Bihar’s population. But Tejashwi Yadav’s followers see him as a strong youth leader and are impressed by his leadership vision and energy. Mostly unemployed young voters prefer him as the Bihar CM face because of his vocal opposition during Tejashwi Yadav’s past role as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar.

Prashant Kishor’s Rise

The biggest surprise of the C-Survey is the rising popularity of Prashant Kishore who was a former political strategist working under the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). In February 2025, his approval reading was around 14.9% but now in April 2025 his approval ratings have improved to 17.2%. people see him as a novel face who could bring revolutionary change in Bihar. Prashant Kishor has announced that he will contest all the 243 seats in the Bihar assembly election 2025. He has a very strong image among the citizens who want a new CM face in Bihar.

Prashant Kishor is actively mobilizing his Jan Suraaj Party in districts like Champaran, Sitamarhi and Gopalganj. He advocates clean politics and transparent governance. He has given a lot of popularity among first-time voters are those who are fed up with the traditional political parties in Bihar.

Nitish Kumar’s Popularity Decreases

Shockingly, the recent C-Voter survey ratings revealed that Bihar’s current CM Nitish Kumar is losing is popularity. He was once the undisputed leader of Bihar. In the February 2025 ratings, Nitish Kumar got around 18.4% votes but in the recent April 2025 survey, he got only 15.4% in the approval ratings. This way he got the third place on the list of most preferred CM candidate for Bihar. In spite of his legacy of governance reforms and major infrastructural development and Bihar people seem to be unsatisfied with his current tenure.

Yashwant Deshmukh who is the political analyst has pointed out several factors which could be the reason for this downfall in Nitish Kumar’s popularity :

Nitish Kumar’s Health : Due to concerns over his health and his reduced appearance in the public, people are perceiving him as a passive leader. Opposition leaders have made several jabs over how his health is deteriorating making him unfit for working as the CM.

Frequent Shifts : The most probable reason for the declining trends in Nitish Kumar’s popularity is his frequency alliance shifts. In the last 10 years Nitish Kumar has changed his alliance five times switching back and forth from NDA and Mahagathbandhan. This is backfired him and people have lost trust in him claiming him as an unstable leader.

Fading Caste Appeal : Nitish Kumar’s caste neutral image is declining, people are now skeptical and feel that his strong leadership is now missing. Now even his old supporter base has shifted.

Bihar Wants Change !

Bihar CM Preference List on the basis of the recent C-Voter survey :

Many voters specially from the rural and semi urban areas have shifted their preference from Nitish Kumar to Tejashwi Yadav. This C-Voter Bihar survey 2025 reflects the major things which the voters are looking for :

Bihar voters now want a stable leadership which has a long-term clear vision.

They want such a leader who is credible in his/her policy decisions.

Voters need solutions to major problems like unemployment and poor healthcare

The emergence of Prashant Kishor as the second most popular CM face in Bihar highlights the fact that people just need a new face now, their fed up with the traditional ways of Bihar politics.

Although Nitish Kumar is respected as an experienced administrator, who has brought major reforms in Bihar, the perception of his instability and political flip-flops are garnering dissatisfaction against him.

Importantly, Yashwant Deshmukh pointed out that popularity in such surveys doesn’t always translate to actual seats in the elections. The results are shaped by many complex reasons where caste dynamics, local candidate appeal and political strategy are the key players.

Conclusion

Bihar elections 2025 are round the corner, expected to be conducted between October to November 2025. It is to be noted that the Election Commission has not officially declared the dates yet and these are just possible expectations. The political atmosphere and Bihar is heating up with all parties working to enhance their popularity. Let’s see what the future has to offer.

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