A gathering of townspeople talk governmental issues in Kalyan Bigha, in Harnaut Assembly voting public of Bihar. 

The street is smooth, blacktopped, white markers in the center that talk about an ongoing layer of paint. The fields are green on either side. At the passageway to the town, there is an ITI, and afterward a reference emergency clinic. One sign even brags of a shooting range. Kalyan Bigha, in the locale of Nalanda, bears the indications of authoritative consideration, of being Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's town. Its occupants state that up to this point, with the town seeing such a great amount of work, there has been unanimity among inhabitants, cutting across position, tossing their weight behind Kumar in surveys. Yet, this time, splits are showing up in that structure. 

The bigger Harnaut get together voting public is as near a Nitish Kumar astoundingly. It was from here that he won his first gathering political decision in 1985, on his third endeavor, and afterward again in 1995. For as long as three terms, there has been a JDU MLA, Harinarayan Singh, who is challenging the races once more, in a seat that goes to the surveys in the second stage on November 3. 

On Thursday morning, directly close to the blacktopped street, and near a sanctuary, a gathering of six seniors of the town sit and examine legislative issues. They are all Kurmi, yet accept "just a simpleton would decide in favor of any other person" yet Nitish Kumar. "What has he not accomplished for this town? There is a street, a major government school, an ITI, a medical clinic. We recall the prior days he became Chief Minister when we needed to help our sickly on charpais through the fields in light of the fact that there was no street. Snakes would chomp us, and even 4 km away in Harnaut, there was no assurance the patient would live. This turn of events, is it not for everybody? The entire town of Kalyan Bigha consistently votes in favor of Nitish Kumar," Umesh Kumar said. 

But, this inclination for Nitish Kumar doesn't exactly mean there's bliss over government arrangements over the most recent a half year. In Kalyan Bigha, Umesh Kumar says, there has not been a solitary instance of Covid-19, and that has prompted disappointment with the lockdown and different measures to forestall its spread. Not a solitary individual in the town is wearing a cover, nor is there any social separating. 

"Agar gaon mein, jaan pehchan mein kisi ko hua howdy nahi, toh kaise maan le Corona hai? (On the off chance that nobody in the town has tried positive, how would we accept there's Corona?). Furthermore, this administration secured the nation. Our kids in the urban areas needed to return on the grounds that there was no cash, and the condition is still awful," Kumar said. 

There is one more explanation behind annoyance rising at the surface. The coming days will bring both Durga Puja and Chhath, and the choice not to permit "melas" during this period isn't being gotten well. "On the off chance that we are experiencing an emergency, individuals ought to be permitted to assemble and go to God. These are our greatest celebrations. The mela would mean this sanctuary behind you would be full. There would be lights in the town and food slows down, and other little shops. Everything is currently gone," said another senior. 

Inquired as to whether they consider anybody liable, there is quiet. "Everybody here will cast a ballot Nitish Kumar. He has changed our town and the supporters. That is your answer," Umesh Kumar said. 

Not every person. 200 meters away, Pawan Paswan is filling water at the territory handpump. Until a couple of months prior, he was an every day wage worker at Mithapur in Patna, 60 km away. At the point when work halted, he got back home. 

"It has never been this terrible for poor people. Indeed, even in the town, there's work in their parts," he focuses to the seniors, who are all Kurmi. "We generally decided in favor of Nitish Kumar in the town, yet this time, the Paswans are looking at deciding in favor of the LJP. Indeed, even the Dalits may not decide in favor of Nitish Kumar. He may win this seat, however he doesn't have our vote," Paswan said. 

Around 10 km away, another gathering of seniors, generally from the Scheduled Castes, sit by a street in Telmar town. On the off chance that Kalyan Bigha has pucca homes, the houses in the basti of Telmar are cheek by cheek, their covered rooftops in dire need of fix, open channels streaming aside. Here as well, Naresh Ravidas says that some may even now decide in favor of Nitish Kumar on the grounds that it is his seat, however over the most recent five years, "Kumar had quit working for poor people." "Street banaya, lekin street pe toh gaadi chalti hai na? Humein kya mila? (He has manufactured streets, however vehicles run on streets. What did we get?)," he said. 

The monetary trouble from the lockdown is a predominant factor wherever in Bihar, and in Telmar, there is a lot of discussion around it. 

"Everything has halted, costs of vegetables have gone up. Potatoes are at Rs 80 a kilo. Could a helpless man purchase that? They state they gave five kilos of proportion and 1 kilo of dal. I have 9 individuals in my home, yet just 5 individuals got it. Let me know, how long will it last at that point? Nitish Kumar has given reading material, however the instructor in our school doesn't come. I can guarantee you, a Class 9 understudy can't keep in touch with her own name," Ravidas said. 

There are likewise charges of how rank has entered managerial choices in Telmar, and that has enraged the Scheduled Castes. 

"On the off chance that the upper ranks or the Kurmis need a network corridor, they get it. For quite a long time, we have been requesting one. We need it the most. Our homes are little and broken-down, there is no space for anything. However, they don't. On the off chance that something is inherent the town, it is their ally, never on our own. The administration guaranteed 3 decimals of land to the landless. Very few individuals have it. These most recent five years have not been acceptable," Ravidas said. 

This is still Nitish Kumar's stronghold and in spite of hostile to incumbency against nearby MLA Harinarayan Singh, for "not visiting us", the pervasive appraisal is that the JDU will win the seat. Yet, there are mumbles characteristic of a bigger enemy of incumbency, among poor people, that has repercussions for the remainder of the state. 

One Telmar senior voices the opinion: "At any rate in Lalu's raj, we had some regard. Harnaut mein toh Nitish jeet jayega, lekin bahar kya hoga? (Nitish will win Harnaut, yet what will happen elsewhere?)." Another says that among the Scheduled Castes, Nitish Kumar would win all the votes in Telmar. "Is baar, 12 haath Nitish jeetega, toh chaar haath koi aur (Nitish will get the dominant part casts a ballot)," he said. Naresh Ravidas opposes this idea. "8 haath aur 8 haath bhi ho sakta hai (It might be an even challenge)."