Updated: November 10, 2020 8:08:42 pm
RJD chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav and his older brother Tej Pratap are leading in their respective constituencies of Raghopur and Hasanpur.
Grand Alliance Chief Ministerial Candidate Tejashwi Yadav leads from Raghopur Bastion RJD by a whopping margin of over 28,000 votes, while his older brother, Tej Pratap, won in the Hasanpur constituency, even as recent trends showed the ruling NDA was marginally ahead of the RJD-led Grand Alliance in the Bihar elections. A host of Bihar ministers, including Nand Kishore Yadav, Brijendra Prasad Yadav and Binod Narayan Jha, are leading the way, but Shailesh Kumar is behind, according to the latest trends from the Election Commission.
In the stronghold of RJD Raghopur, represented by Lalu Prasad in 1995 and 2000, and Rabri Devi in 2005, Tejashwi Yadav leads the BJP’s Satish Kumar by more than 28,000 votes. In the 2015 elections, Tejashwi had won the seat by defeating Kumar of the BJP by a margin of 22,733 votes. The Raghopur Assembly seat is estimated to be around 1.25 lakh Yadavs, with other castes far behind – there are 40,000 Rajputs and around 20,000 SC and 10,000 non-Yadav OBCs. Follow the updates LIVE
His older brother, Tej Pratap, won against Raj Kumar Ray of JD (U) by a margin of 21,139 votes from the Hasanpur constituency of Samastipur, a seat won by JD (U) as a constituent of the Grand Alliance in the last elections of the assembly. Tej Pratap, who was elected from the Mahua constituency in the last election, decided to switch to the “more secure” Hasanpur seat, which has a good mix of Muslim and Yadav votes.
RJD Tejashwi leaders Yadav and Tej Pratap with others during an election campaign meeting, in Vaishali (PTI)
Hindustani chief and former Prime Minister Awam Morcha, Jitan Ram Manjhi, who participated in the elections as part of the NDA, comfortably won Imamganj’s seat by 16,034 votes after initially being behind RJD’s Uday Narain Choudhary. In 2015, Manjhi won from Imamganj’s seat as an independent candidate and defeated then-JD (U) leader Uday Narayan Choudhary.
This time, Chandrika Rai, a former minister and father-in-law of Tej Pratap Yadav, who competed on a JD (U) ticket, lost in the Parsa assembly seat in Saran by more than 17,000 votes against Chote Lal Rai of the RJD. JD (U) leader and state assembly chairman Vijay Kumar Choudhary is slightly ahead of RJD’s Arvind Kumar Sahni from Sarairanjan’s headquarters in Samastipur.
In Bankipur’s high-profile seat, three-time BJP MLA Nitin Nabin is ahead by a wide margin, with Shatrughan Sinha’s son Luv Sinha, who competed on a Congressional ballot, a distant second. Pushpam Priya Chaudhary from the newly formed Plurals Party is in third place. Nabin has held the seat of the Bankipur legislative assembly since 2006.
Congressman Suhasini Yadav, daughter of veteran socialist and Loktantrik boss Janata Dal (LJD) Sharad Yadav, is also behind in the Bihariganj assembly seat in Madhepura district.
Daughter of former Union Minister Digvijay Singh, shooter Shreyasi Singh joined the BJP just before the elections (Photo Express)
Daughter of former Union Minister Digvijay Singh, the shooter Shreyasi Singh, who joined the BJP just before the elections, leads from Jamui by more than 35,000 votes. Shreyasi faces RJD MLA and former Minister Vijay Prakash (younger brother of former Banka MP Jaiprakash Yadav) and Ajay Pratap Singh. The Assembly segment is dominated by Yadavs, Rajputs and Muslims followed by SCs.
In Madhepura, Rajesh Ranjan aka Pappu Yadav, head of Jan Adhikar Party-Loktantrik (JAP-L), is far behind in the contest, with RJD’s Chandrashekhar in the driver’s seat. In May 2015, Pappu Yadav was suspended from the RJD.
RJD’s Anant Singh, a criminal turned politician and sitting at Mokama MLA, is leading from the Mokama seat by a margin of more than 35,000 votes over JD’s Rajiv Lochan Narayan Singh, according to the latest trends. Mokama is part of the Munger Lok Sabha constituency.
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