Divya Gautam’s quiet campaign spotlights unemployment in Bihar’s Digha. She won’t use ‘Sushant’ factor

Digha, Bihar: No SUV convoys, no loud music and little fanfare. It doesn’t feel like a typical Bihar election campaign.

Instead, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation candidate Divya Gautam goes door to door in Patna district’s Digha constituency, meeting voters and making her pitch with quiet confidence.

While campaigning in Digha, Bihar’s largest constituency, which votes on 6 November, the 34-year-old Gautam tells ThePrint she is confident she can bring ‘badlaav’, or change. Show Full Article

An academic and theatre actor with MA degrees in Journalism and Mass Communication and Women’s Studies, Gautam says unemployment remains the biggest concern for Bihar’s youth and the central focus of her campaign.

The first-time candidate reiterates the promise of government j