Alinagar, Nov 1 (PTI) When a petite teenager from Bihar began making waves in the world of music about a decade ago, few would have thought that the demure girl would end up in the rough and tumble of politics.

Maithili Thakur, who turned 25 just a few months ago, is not surprisingly one of the most talked-about candidates in the Bihar assembly elections.

“I am planning to build a house in Alinagar and make the place my home. My maternal roots are here. I do not want to live anywhere else”, says Thakur, who is being targeted, primarily, for being an “outsider” in the assembly segment of Darbhanga district. Show Full Article

The singer-politician, who is fluent in the local dialect Maithili, has her roots in the adjoining district of Madhubani and, for some time, has been settled in Delh

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