New Delhi: As attention swivels to Bihar in this season of elections and thousands return home to cast their vote, the spotlight is shining on Bihari migrants -- the men and women who travel far to make a living and keep many a wheel going in their adopted states.

Though the two-phase Bihar assembly elections end on Tuesday, the results rippling nationwide and paving the way for a new state government, it is not just about politics. Biharis away from home are asserting their identity. And reconfiguring the bracket they were slotted in.

“Bihari” was an identity that carried baggage, but somewhere in the last decade, that word began to glow again, said Anup Sharma, a Gurugram-based strategic communications advisor who was born and grew up in Bihar.

Politics isn’t the only thing to be cred

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