BJP Candidate, Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary Leads From Bihar's Tarapur By 3,000 Votes

Deputy Chief Minister and BJP candidate Samrat Choudhary is leading from the Tarapur constituency even as the counting of the votes is underway for the Bihar Elections 2025. Choudhary, a seasoned politician, is currently a member of the Legislative Council. He is being trailed by Arun Kumar of the RJD and Santosh Singh of the Jan Suraaj Party in the seat.

Choudhary is ahead of Arun Kumar by a margin of over 3,300 votes after four rounds of counting.

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The Tarapur seat was won by Rajeev Kumar Singh of the JDU. It went to the BJP under the seat-sharing plan of the NDA.

Choudhary, an OBC face of the party, served as the president of the BJP Bihar unit between 2023 and 2024. He was also the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council when the RJD and JDU briefly shared power in 2022. 

A former RJD leader, Choudhary is the son of veteran politician Shakuni Choudhary. He had defected to the BJP in 2014 along with over a dozen MLAs, engineering a split in the Lalu Yadav-led party.