patna dday is here all eyes are on bihar waiting for the counting of votes to begin on tuesday for the 243 assembly seats in the state and one lok sabha bypoll at valmiki nagaris bihar politics on the cusp of a generational shift this question which is uppermost on the minds of the states voters will be answered when the counting begins at 8 am across 55 centres in the state and the results start flashing on tv screens across the countryif the exit polls are correct bihar is on the threshold of a seismic shift as the mahagathbandhan led by rjd leader tejashwi prasad yadav is predicted by a majority of pollsters to win the polls however if the results belie the exit poll results the people of bihar will have reposed their faith in the sushashan of chief minister nitish kumarashish sinha a bsc student from biharsharif wrote on his facebook page on monday lalten wale kahte hain nitish ne kya kiya maine kaha tum jis ghar mein jhakas bulb jala rahe ho na ye nitish ne hin kiya rjd supporters ask what nitish did i tell them that it was because of nitish that your house is illuminated with electric bulbspat came a reply from ashishs fb friend from katihar sandip rai bijli jalane se pet bharta hai to bolo rojgar kise diya hai bolo can electricity satisfy hunger tell me who got jobs from nitisha jdu leader preferring anonymity said it is the same as a young son telling his parents that they did nothing for him but the conversation narrates the story of bihar pollsas tejashwi turned 31 on monday rjd workers raised slogans at the party office bihar mein raftaar hai tejashwi sarkar hai nitishe jimeddar hai bihar has speed tejashwi is to govern and nitish is responsible for that inadvertently the last part of the slogan is loaded with meanings that it was nitish who not only revived the rjd but also launched tejashwi in bihar politics in a big way as his deputy by joining hands with lalu and forming government in 2015tejashwi impressed people as a keen learner active politician and ambitious administrator as deputy cm under nitish before the jdu chief dumped rjd and formed government with bjp in 2017 which earned him the epithet of paltu chachabut even the hardcore critics of nitish cannot deny the turnaround he brought about in bihar which had become synonymous with lawlessness jungle raj and was bereft of any development worth the name before 2005 be it during the lalu and rabri devi rule or the previous governments mostly run by the congresshowever as the exit polls show people of the state appear to have denied nitish another term as he hinted recently that this election could be his last or the aspiring youths and firsttime voters who had not seen the situation prevailing before 2005 in bihar found the 15 years versus 15 years of lalurabri and nitish meaningless as much