Muzaffarpur: “Ham tah Nitish-e ji ke vote debai...” (I will vote only for Nitish Kumar), says Sangita Sahani, as her husband grins from a charpoy beside her. He wants change and plans to support Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party. But Sangita remains firm. Under Nitish’s leadership, she says, she found not just government benefits but also peace and stability — something she doesn’t want disturbed.

Sahani is among the one crore women said to have received Rs 10,000 from the state government under the Jeevika Mission just weeks before the election. She used the money to invest in the kirana shop she runs with her husband.

The Sahani couple hails from Badanpur Milki, a village in Vaishali district located along the Patna-Muzaffarpur highway. At the village entrance stands a toran gate bear

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