New Delhi, Barely months before Bihar Assembly elections, poll campaign in the State is facing a dilemma- direct connect or Campaign From Home (CFH)?While a number of young political activists are giving priority to campaigns online, a sizeable section is of the view that digital interactions are temporary, these cannot replace and emerge alternative to in-person contact.According to reports, the buzz of whirring helicopters, crowds gathering on poster-lined streets and the Carnival-like atmosphere of poll rallies and roadshows are missing in Bihar. Instead, political leaders are stuck in their offices trying to woo the electorate through Zoom meetings and WhatsApp messages.Is this the future of netagiri? Is pandemic reshaping Indian politics? Will technology win over personal contact? – questions are doing the rounds.Reports from the Nitish Kumar- ruled State informed that campaigns and voter connect have been going online over the years, as political pandits maintained that the pandemic would only accelerate the trend.Campaigning in Bihar for the October-November elections, for instance, has shifted to the digital realm for the most part. Both the BJP and the Opposition have already powered over nearing 40,000 WhatsApp groups that connect everyone from village-level worker to the State party president.IT cell members have been running crash courses for party workers so they are able to juggle video-conferences by senior leaders and send pictures and videos to give an account of their political activities. However, amid the CFH, the effectiveness of a digital campaign was ‘questioned’ by number of senior political leaders like Bihar LJP spokesperson Rajiv Ranjan who remarked “It is the toughest for the candidate who must connect with people. The conventional modes of rallies and door-to-door campaigning are not possible.”