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JD(U)’s Manorama Devi defeated RJD’s Vishwanath Kumar Singh by 21,391 votes. (Photo: PTI)
As the BJP swept the Assembly bypolls successful Bihar, winning each 4 seats, including the RJD bastions of Belaganj and Ramgarh, canvass strategist Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) made its beingness felt successful its debut, perchance denting the prospects of the RJD successful 2 seats contempt its different 2 candidates forfeiting deposits.
In Belaganj, a spot which the RJD had not mislaid implicit the past 34 years, the JD(U)’s Manorama Devi defeated RJD’s Vishwanath Kumar Singh by 21,391 votes. The JSP campaigner Mohammad Amjad seemingly played spoilsport present for the RJD arsenic helium pocketed implicit 17,000 votes. The bypoll present was necessitated aft eight-time MLA Surendra Prasad Yadav was elected to the Lok Sabha.
In Imamganj too, the JSP seems to person spoiled the RJD’s chances arsenic its campaigner Jitendra Paswan secured 37,082 votes adjacent arsenic Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) campaigner and Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s daughter-in-law, Deepa Kumari defeated her closest rival, Roshan Manjhi of the RJD, by a borderline of 5,945 votes.
In the intimately contested spot of Ramgarh, BJP’s yet emerged victorious aft its campaigner Ashok Kumar Singh was fixed a tally for his wealth by BSP’s Satish Kumar, who mislaid the bypoll by a 1,362-vote borderline and emerged runner-up. The RJD, which had been synonymous with the spot held by the household erstwhile authorities portion president Jagnanad Singh for 3 decades and fielded his lad Ajit, came successful third. Here, the JSP campaigner Sushil Kumar Singh finished 4th and forfeited his deposit.
The NDA besides managed to pouch Tarari, seen to beryllium a stronghold of the CPI (ML)L successful caller times, with the BJP’s Vishal Prashant, the lad of erstwhile Tarari MLA defeating the Left party’s Raju Yadav by implicit 10,000 votes. Here too, the JSP campaigner Kiran Singh forfeited her deposit and emerged runner-up with 5,592 votes.
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