Patna: Twenty-three-year-old Bhavya Singh, who voted for the first time in the first phase of Bihar elections, said she felt more excited being part of a democratic exercise in pursuance of choosing the next government than seeing the indelible ink daubed on her finger.

Pursuing her master’s in commerce from an open university, she spelt out what a youngster like her expect from “whichever alliance comes to power”.

“If the party I voted for comes to power, it is good, but even if it doesn’t, and another one takes its place, I will be fine, as I have taken part in the democratic process that would result in it,” Bhavya told PTI.

She, her elder brother Shivam Pratap Singh, and mother Rekha Singh came out to vote in the afternoon in the key Kumhrar constituency, when not many voters had t

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