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Even as Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar tried to strike an emotional chord by calling it his “last” election, NDA is going through its hardest check within the third and remaining spherical of polls in Seemanchal (Kishanganj, Araria, Katihar and Purnia), Kosi (Supaul, Saharsa and Madhepura), Mithila (Darbhanga and Madhubani) and Tirhut (Muzaffarpur and Sitamarhi) regions on 78 seats.
While the Seemanchal belt provides a clear benefit to the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance), Asaduddin’s Owasi’s AIMIM, contesting on 16 seats on this spherical, could reduce into Grand Alliance’s votes and will win one to 2 seats. NDA additionally faces a troublesome struggle in Purnia, Araria and Katihar.
That Seemanchal is a stronghold of the Grand Alliance could be understood from being its savour in 2010 Assembly polls wherein Nitish-led NDA had gained 206 of 243 Bihar seat.
In the Kosi belt too, the Grand Alliance seems forward with solely NDA veterans reminiscent of ministers, Bijendra Prasad Yadav (Supaul) and Narendra Narayan Yadav (Alamganj) wanting good to retain their bastions. JD(U)’s Madhepura nominee and grandson of former CM BP Mandal, Nikhil Mandal is going through a contest.
On Saharsa seat, former MP and spouse of incarcerated former MP Anand Mohan, Lovely Anand is a powerful RJD contender. EBC Mallah chief Mukesh Sahni can be discovering it robust towards RJD in Simri Bakhtiyarpur seat. Socialist chief Sharad Yadav’s daughter Suhasini Raj is doing nicely as a Congress nominee from Bihariganj seat of Madhepura. It is an altogether totally different factor that the socialist stalwart, who vehemently opposed Congress virtually all through his political profession, got here to a full circle together with his daughter becoming a member of Congress.
Other high contenders on this spherical are former minister and senior RJD chief Abdul Bari Siddiqui (Keoti), Lalu Prasad’s shut aide Bhola Yadav (Hayaghat), BJP chief Sanjay Saraogi (Darbhanga), BJP minister Binod Narayan Jha from Benipatti, AIMIM Akhatarul Iman (Amour), veteran RJD chief and former minister Ramai Ram (Bochaha), BJP minister Suresh Sharma (Muzaffarpur), JD (U)’s Bima Bharati and Lesi Singh from Rupauli and Dhamdaha, respectively.
2015 place
JD (U): 24
BJP: 19
RJD: 20
Congress: 10
CPI (ML)- 1
Others: 4
2020/ Contesting 78
NDA
JD (U):37
BJP: 35
HAM (S):1
VIP: 5
GA
RJD: 46
Congress: 25
CPI (ML): 5
CPI: 2
Third Front
AIMIM: 16
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