Crowds sway as Manoj sings for BJP win

They are mostly young men, the sort you are more likely to see outside ramshackle single-screen theatres showing a Bhojpuri film than at a political rally defying afternoon heat and dust. For over two hours, they patiently hear out one speaker after another – all lamenting the hypocrisy of the Lalu-Nitish alliance, expressing outrage at Lalu’s ‘Hindus too eat beef’ remark and going gaga over Narendra Modi’s Rs 1.25 lakh crore largesse for Bihar announced in August from a maidan barely 200 yards away