Leader of the main opposition to Nitish Kumar in Bihar, India. He is 35. His party pledged to deliver enough government jobs to guarantee at least one per family within 20 months of taking office—a pledge that could require creating over a million new posts a month. The promise has wide appeal in Bihar, where status and financial stability come from entering the bureaucracy rather than the private sector.
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a "realist," he is preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of doing.