Bihar bypoll results 2019: LJP win in Samastipur LS seat, AIMIM in Kishanganj

Bihar bypoll results 2019: The bypolls were held in Belhar, Simri Bakhtiarpur, Nathnagar, Kishanganj and Daraunda Assembly constituencies on account of the sitting MLAs getting elected to the Lok Sabha.

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In a disappointing result for the BJP-JD(U) combine, only one candidate of the alliance managed to win a seat. (file)

Bihar Assembly Bye-Election Results 2019: Results of the bye-elections to five Assembly seats and one parliamentary seat in Bihar were declared Thursday. While the RJD won two seats, JD(U), AIMIM and an independent candidate won one seat each. Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) won the solitary bypoll on Samastipur Lok Sabha seat.

The bypolls were held in Belhar, Simri Bakhtiarpur, Nathnagar, Kishanganj, and Daraundha Assembly constituencies on account of the sitting MLAs getting elected to the Lok Sabha. The bye-election to the Samastipur Lok Sabha seat was necessitated after the death of LJP MP Ram Chandra Paswan, following which the party fielded his son Prince Raj.

In the bye-election for Samastipur, Prince Raj won against Congress’ Ashok Kumar by over 1 lakh votes. Raj won the seat by over 1 lakh votes. The bye-election to the Samastipur seat was necessitated after the death of LJP MP Ram Chandra Paswan, following which the party fielded his son Prince Raj.

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AIMIM’s Qamrul Hoda won his party a maiden seat in the Bihar Assembly by winning from Kishanganj. He defeated BJP’s Sweety Singh by over 10,000 votes.

The results brought good news for the RJD, which won two seats. RJD’s Zafar Alam and Ramdeo Yadav won from Simri Bakhtiarpur and Belhar seats respectively. Party chief Tejashwi Yadav sounded euphoric over the win, saying that the bypoll win has set the tone for the 2020 state Assembly polls. Taking to Twitter, Yadav said, “The bypolls have proved that Bihar does not want a conservative government in 2020 but a leadership which promises to deliver on the expectations and dreams of the people towards a developmental, aspiring new Bihar.”

Independent candidate Karnjeet Singh won from the Daraundha seat.

In a disappointing result for the BJP-JD(U) combine, only one candidate of the alliance managed to win a seat. The only saving grace for the NDA came from Nathnagar where JD(U)’s Lakshmikant Mandal defeated RJD’s Rabiya Khatun by 5,131 votes. The result may come as a red signal for the ruling alliance as the state elections are set to take place next year.

The JD(U), however, maintained that the party has bounced back from similar positions in the past. “The people’s mandate is supreme and we bow before that. But we recall that in 2009 we had similarly lost in the assembly by-polls only to emerge stronger than ever before in the Vidhan Sabha elections held the following year,” JD(U) spokesman Rajiv Ranjan Prasad told PTI.

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The bypolls are largely being seen as a referendum on the four-year government of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Bihar saw a voter turnout of 49.50 per cent on Monday.

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