From doorstep delivery of construction materials for places of worship in Adivasi villages to pamphlets highlighting key promises such as cash for women, jobs for youth, and housing for all, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign in Santhal Pargana is playing out on the ground in different ways across the region’s northern-most constituencies, including Maheshpur, Rajmahal, Berhait, Pakur, and Borrio. The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha’s (JMM) rhetoric of calling BJP’s star campaigners “outsiders”, in whose States tribal people are subjected to atrocities, too, is reaching several Adivasi-dominated villages through videos on social media. While several Adivasi communities spoke of infrastructure needs – for self and community — conversations in others featured concerns of Adivasi women marrying outside the community, consent, and changing demographics.  The Santhal Pargana division, which goes to polls on November 20, comprises six districts containing 18 Assembly constituencies. In the 2019 Assembly election, nine of these seats were won by the JMM, and four each by the BJP and Congress. In 2014, even when the BJP had formed the government, the JMM had won seven seats …