India, Nov. 2 -- A key aspect of the NDA campaign has been that a vote for the Mahagathbandhan would mean a return of the "jungle raj" in Bihar. This narrative sought to recall a time in the 1990s, when violence by bahubalis (men with criminal records) was frequent and mostly condoned by the administration headed by Lalu Prasad, then chief minister and the face of Rashtriya Janata Dal. A significant achievement of Nitish Kumar's tenure in office was the restoration of the rule of law and the reining in of politicians, who were law unto themselves. Last week's poll violence in Mokama, a town notorious as a playfield of bahubalis, was a throwback to a past Bihar wants to forget. That the key figure in the violence - a supporter of the Jan S...