During the 2024 Lok Sabha election, scores of BJP leaders, including PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah promised a "permanent stop" to " ghuspaithiya or "infiltrators". Months later in Jharkhand, Modi, in his Garhwa rally, called the JMM-Congress-RJD Mahagathbandhan alliance a " ghuspaithiya bandhan " (infiltrators' alliance). Now, days before the Assembly Election in Bihar, the ghuspaithiya rhetoric is back . This time in Bihar's Seemanchal, a region with a substantial presence of Muslim voters.

The Seemanchal region of Bihar, near the strategic Chicken's Neck, votes in the second and last phase of the Assembly election on November 11. The results of the Bihar Assembly election will be out on November 14. Campaigning for the last phase ended on November 9, with infilt

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