Former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav's elder son Tej Pratap Yadav, who was expelled from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), floated his own political front to contest in the assembly elections in Bihar. Not only are none of the other 20 candidates fielded by his party- the Janshakti Janta Dal (JJD)- either trailing or have lost, Tej Pratap Yadav has also lost from his constituency, ending a distant third.
Yadav was contesting from the Mahua assembly constituency and finished behind the winner, Sanjay Kumar Singh of Chirag Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) as well as Mukesh Kumar Raushan of the RJD.
Singh secured 87,641 votes, followed by Raushan, with 42,644 votes. Yadav polled only 35,703 votes, which is less than half of the winner.
About The Constituency
The Mahua assembly constituency is in Vaishali district. Tej Pratap Yadav was the MLA from the constituency in 2015, when he was a member of the RJD. He then contested and won from the Hasanpur seat in Samastipur district.
In 2020, the RJD's Mukesh Kumar Raushan had emerged the winner from Mahua, defeating JD(U)'s Ashma Parveen by a margin of 13,770 votes. Raushan secured 62,747 votes while Parveen managed to get 48,977 votes.
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