Rivals belt out songs, hope they’re music to voters’ ears

PATNA: A day after RJD released its poll song ‘Tejashwi bhava: Bihar’, BJP on Tuesday launched its own ‘Bihar Me Ee Ba’ to showcase the infrastructure development in Bihar under the NDA regime.
The BJP’s video song also mentions the opening of IITs, AIIMS, new bridges as well as improvement in the health and education sector. It also talks about transforming Bihar cities into metros like Mumbai and Delhi.All senior BJP functionaries, including party’s national general secretary Bhupender Yadav and deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, have posted the song on their social media handles.
This song is seen as a reply to ‘Bihar me ka ba’, a song by Bhojpuri singer Neha Singh Rathore. Neha, in her song, has raised questions about migration, handling of Covid-19 and dilapidated educational infrastructure, besides the 15-year rule each of Nitish Kumar and Lalu-Rabri.
Earlier, cine star Manoj Bajpai had come up with a rap, ‘Mumbai me ka ba’, which talked about the plight of labourers who migrated to big cities like Mumbai for work while leaving behind their families. The rap talks about the hardships the migrants suffer, the kind of food they eat and adversities in which they live in the metros, leaving behind their village life just to earn livelihood. However, BJP spokesperson Sanjay Mayukh said the party song is a reply to the opposition which questions the development in Bihar in the last 15 years. “Few people suffer from political disease and they are not able to see any development. This song is an eye-opener for them. They should recall that Bihar is the land of Chandragupta. They need to be reminded about the Kosi rail bridge inaugurated recently,” he said.
Political parties are making full use of digital platforms to reach the audience in the times of Covid pandemic. They are coming up with several audio-video songs to attack the opposition and try to send their messages across the common people.
RJD on Monday launched its campaign song with a punch line, ‘Is baar Tejashwi tai hai’.