Bihar council polls: JD(U), BJP, CPI win 2 seats every; Cong, Impartial bag 1
Up to date: November 14, 2020 1:40:52 pm
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The JD(U) misplaced one constituency of the Bihar legislative council to an Impartial candidate and hung on to 2 others, whilst the opposite 5 had been retained by means of the respective individuals belonging to the BJP, CPI and Congress within the polls held ultimate month, officers stated on Saturday.
Counting of votes for the graduate constituencies of Patna, Koshi, Darbhanga and Tirhut, and the trainer constituencies of Patna, Darbhanga, Tirhut and Saran, which started on Thursday, concluded past due on Friday, they stated.
The polling for the seats, which fell vacant in Would possibly, used to be deferred by means of a couple of months because of the COVID-19 pandemic and
hung on October 22.
The ruling JD(U), headed by means of Leader Minister Nitish Kumar, misplaced the Darbhanga trainer constituency to Sarvesh Kumar, an Impartial candidate, who polled 15,595 out of 22,549 votes forged, the Election Fee stated.
He wrested the seat from Dilip Kumar Chaudhary, a detailed aide of JD(U) operating president and previous minister Ashok Choudhary.
JD(U) applicants Neeraj Kumar and Devesh Chandra Thakur retained their Patna graduate and Tirhut graduate seats.
Neeraj Kumar used to be the minister for Data Public Members of the family Division.
Ashok Choudhary held the development development portfolio.
Kumar and Choudhary had been stripped in their cupboard berths just lately as a length of six months elapsed since their club of the legislature expired.
Choudhary is anticipated to be accommodated in the course of the Governor’s quota.
BJP applicants NK Yadav and Nawal Kishore Yadav retained the Koshi graduate and Patna trainer constituencies, respectively.
CPI applicants Sanjay Kumar Singh and Kedar Nath Pandey additionally retained their respective trainer constituencies
of Tirhut and Saran.
Madan Mohan Jha, the state Congress president, retained the Darbhanga trainer constituency.
