As Chhath draws migrants to Bihar, parties scramble for their votes

Chhath is a special occasion that fills every Bihari with nostalgia and draws them home, no matter the cost or discomfort they must endure

DARBHANGA: The otherwise deserted villages of Mithilanchal have suddenly become populous, filled with unfamiliar faces and accents that don’t sound native. It’s happening in villages such as Dekuli, Madanpur, Ughra, Usmamatha, Shankar Lohar, and Pator dotting on the flanks of the Darbhanga-Baheri road and Kakarghati, Tarsarai, Sakri, Nawada, Aradiya-Sangram, and Phulparas on the Darbhanga-Supaul road.

Party workers can be seen at every big railway station and bus stand urging returnees to cast their vote for their nominees. (ANI/Representative)

But don’t mistake the visitors for outsiders. They are the very sons and daughters of these villages, who were forced to migrate from Bihar