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How similar is Lalu Prasad Yadav and Donal Trump?

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Its amazing how two people continents apart could be so similar. We recently analysed personality of Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav and Donal Trump and the results are: Comical Character: Both these personalities are favourite of Caricature Artist. See the images below: Both of these characters have been favourite of SitCom and Standup Artists. Check out the video below: Both indulge in "polarization of masses" for politics: Lalu Prasad have always supported caste based politics in India, and have divided the country based on caste and have supported Reservation in the Country based on the caste. Thats one of the major reason of his popularity.  Laloo have gone to the extent of using a look alike of Osama bin Laden in an attempt to woo Muslim voters. Luckily enough this move backfired. On the similar lines, Donald Trump is trying to polarise the US metropolitan society by going against  muslim comment and Mexican immigrants to gain popularity. He

Media Painting Wrong Picture of Bihar

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In recent discussions with a friend who being a die hard Laloo and RJD supporter came up with a claim that crime have gone down in Bihar since the government came into power. I doubted his claim, for this he pulled out some articles which were a mockery of data analysis. http://www.dailyo.in/politics/lalu-prasad-nitish-kumar-bihar-jungle-raj-narendra-modi-amit-shah-mahagathbandhan/story/1/8722.html The author of this article is comparing 6 months of data to 2 months of data. Which is wrong. Moreover, the swearing in ceremony was on 20th November, so I am not sure how can this month be included in the average. Moreover crime rate is very seasonal so the month to month comparison needs to be done or equal amount of months must be taken in analysis. Taking average is skewed for crime. So I have done the analysis on above principles and found the following: The crime rate has increase in Bihar since the Government have come to power: And if i see the seasonal crime rate