Murder Accused JDU 'Bahubali' Anant Singh Wins In Bihar's Mokama

Janata Dal United (JDU) candidate and political strongman Anant Singh has won in the Mokama seat in Patna in the Bihar assembly elections 2025. The victory margin was 28,206 votes. His most significant rival, Veena Devi, a candidate of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), finished second. Devi is the wife of Surajbhan Singh, the rival 'bahubali' of Anant Singh.

Anant Singh managed to bag 91,416 votes, while Devi ended with 63,210 votes, according to the Election Commission. The JDU leader is currently in jail after his arrest in a murder case of a Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) supporter. The JSP's Priyadarshi Piyush, who was among the top three candidates after Singh and Devi, came third with 19,365 votes. 

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Meanwhile, posters have surfaced in his constituency anticipating his release, saying, "Jail ka faatak tootega, hamara sher chootega (The prison gates will break, our lion will be released)." Preparations have also begun in his camp for celebrations, with morning visuals showing sweets and food being prepared in huge quantities in tents outside his house.

Singh, who has won the Mokama seat five times, made his assembly debut in 2005. Contesting from the JDU camp, Singh retained his seat in 2010 but quit the party five years later. In 2015, he contested as an Independent and defeated the JDU candidate. He switched to the RJD before the 2020 election and again defended his seat.

Singh, who has 28 criminal cases registered against him, lost his Assembly membership in 2022 after being convicted in an arms case. His wife, Neelam Devi, contested the bye-election and retained Mokama.

Anant Singh was arrested on November 2 in connection with the murder of Dular Singh Yadav, a gangster-turned-politician. He was killed while campaigning for Priyadarshi Piyush, who is fighting on a ticket from Prashant Kishor's JSP.

Yadav was reportedly shot in the leg during a confrontation between his supporters and Singh's aides. But that wasn't the cause of his death. His post-mortem report suggests Yadav died of cardiorespiratory failure due to shock caused by injury to the heart and lungs by a hard and blunt substance.