Polling got underway in 94 constituencies of Bihar assembly on Tuesday morning in the second phase of elections which will decide the electoral fate of RJD leader and Mahagathbandhan's chief ministerial face Tejashwi Yadav and more than 1,450 other candidates. Visuals of huge crowds at campaign rallies of different parties suggest that a politically alert Bihar might have rejected the face coverings en masse as the pandemic nears a gutting milestone across the country. When India Today spoke with mask refusers across the state, they gave a variety of reasons for not accommodating the new behavioural shift inspired by the coronavirus.