Bihar polls: Tej Pratap Yadav stares at defeat in Mahua; LJP(RV) takes lead in key seat

NEW DELHI: Tej Pratap Yadav, laminitis of the Janshakti Janata Dal and campaigner from Mahua, has fallen to 4th spot successful trends arsenic counting begins for the Bihar Assembly Elections. According to the Election Commission, LJP (Ram Vilas) campaigner Sanjay Kumar Singh is starring with 12,897 votes, up of RJD’s Mukesh Kumar Raushan who has secured 8,794 votes.

AIMIM’s Amit Kumar is successful 3rd spot with 4,569 votes, portion Tej Pratap Yadav trails with 2,121 votes.

Earlier successful the morning, Tej Pratap Yadav inspected the beardown country astatine Raj Narain College successful Hajipur. Speaking to reporters aft his visit, helium said, “I inspected the beardown room. The arrangements are good...”His comments came amid contention surrounding an “inflammatory” connection issued by RJD person Sunil Kumar Singh, who had warned predetermination officials against immoderate effort to manipulate the mandate.

Reacting sharply, Tej Pratap dismissed him saying, “He is simply a ‘faltu aadmi’, determination is nary worth successful what helium speaks...”An FIR has been registered against Sunil Singh nether aggregate sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Representation of the People Act, and the IT Act for his remarks. Singh had told ANI that “many RJD candidates were forcibly defeated successful 2020” and warned that attempts to change the mandate could pb to unrest akin to “the scenes witnessed connected the roads successful Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.”

Vote counting for each 243 Bihar Assembly seats is underway today, with results expected by the evening, marking the decision of a month-long predetermination cycle. This predetermination is the archetypal successful 2 decades to beryllium held aft a Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls.Exit polls person predicted a instrumentality of the National Democratic Alliance. In the 2020 election, the NDA won 125 seats compared to the Mahagathbandhan’s 110. Within the NDA, JD(U) contested 115 seats and won 43, portion the BJP bagged 74 of the 110 seats it fought. In the Mahagathbandhan, the RJD won 75 of its 144 seats and the Congress secured 19 retired of 70.