OPINION | As Bihar Polls Enter Final Phase, Seemanchal Waits For A Place At The Centre Of Power

Amit Shah during a roadshow in Purnia on November 7.

Source : ANI

Tomorrow, as Bihar walks to its second and final phase of polling, a quiet tension runs through the borderlands of Seemanchal. The wind that crosses from Nepal and North Bengal into Kishanganj, Purnia, Katihar, and Araria carries more than the dust of election rallies. It carries old anxieties, newer hopes, and the unbroken sound of a region that has lived for decades between promise and neglect. Seemanchal is not an easy place to define. It is Bihar, but it also breathes the rhythms of Bengal