Bihar Assembly Polls 2020 are the first direct elections to be held amidst the ongoing pandemic. Is this the only reason why the assembly polls have been considered different or are there other reasons for it as well?

To analyse this, our guest podcaster Mahtab Alam speaks to two experts, namely, Patna based senior journalist, Rajni Shankar and Researcher and Election Analyst, Ashish Ranjan. In addition to the question of what is different about these elections, they also discuss issues related to the representation of Women in these elections, the impact of ‘reverse migration’ and the Lokniti-CSDS pre-poll survey that has given an edge to NDA.