00:00With just four days to go for the first phase of Bihar elections, the campaign is in its climax in the state.
00:10Both the alliances, the India alliance on one hand and the Mahagarbandan on the other, have promised a bunch of things,
00:19including employment, increase of salaries, lots of industry, preventing people migrating from the state.
00:31Now, the other very important thing which is bothering people is the manner in which murders are happening in the state.
00:41And that, especially the recent murder of Dularchan, which we have seen has happened in a very brutal way,
00:52with the allegations of Nitish's own muscle man being involved.
00:56Outlook talked to people from across the state and some of them said that they are confused,
01:02especially men I talked to, they said they are confused which alliance to trust because the promises are so much.
01:08In fact, one of the high school teacher who teaches economics in Alinagar was telling me,
01:16we are really confused who to trust, what's going on, which alliance will be able to fulfill successfully all the promises.
01:25So one segment of voters is feeling this.
01:28On the other hand, people who have been voting Nitish till now, they have sympathy for him.
01:34They think that he means well and he might end up delivering on the promises because this might be his last term.
01:45The another segment, and I must say it's a very strong and loud segment of electorates in Bihar,
01:55they are really angry with the incumbent government, with the Nitish Kumar government.
02:03They say that the crimes are up.
02:06There hasn't been any employment in the state.
02:11The liquor prohibition law is full of corruption.
02:15And Nitish Kumar seems tired.
02:17He's not able to govern properly.
02:19And they think it's time for change.
02:23Women on the other hand, I talked to a lot of women and while one segment was very happy with Nitish,
02:32and they again think that Nitish will be able to deliver because he has already been delivering for the last 20 years.
02:41So this is very tricky and extremely exciting political situation.
02:46I think it's yet to be seen how this pans out because a large number of constituencies, people are, you know,
02:55they haven't yet been able to decide who to vote.
02:59The floating voters, they're waiting for the last day to decide.
03:04And I'm afraid that Jan Swaraj, which is making its debut in the state of suddenly elections,
03:13and everywhere we went, lots of people in every constituency say that they're really fascinated and curious about Jan Swaraj's experiment.
03:26So Jan Swaraj will be able to get a fairly decent amount of votes, considering that it's its first time.
03:34So it's going to be really difficult for both these two alliances to assure the people that they mean well.
03:47Unlike most of the times in the state's political history, this time people are going to decide what would be Nitish Kumar's legacy.
03:58This is Muhammad Ali with camera person Suresh Pandey from Bihar.
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