PATNA: Political strategist turned activist Prashant Kishor made a splash on Thursday when a candidate backed by him wrested a legislative council seat from Bihar’s ruling Grand Alliance even because the BJP gloated over turning into the “largest party” within the Upper House. Afaq Ahmed, who was within the fray as an Independent, received from the Saran Teachers constituency, defeating CPI’s Anand Pushkar by a cushty margin. By-poll was necessitated within the constituency following the demise of Pushkar’s father Kedar Nath Pandey, a veteran CPI chief who had represented the seat for quite a lot of consecutive phrases.
The ‘Mahagathbandhan’ (Grand Alliance) contains altogether seven outfits and the Left events, CPI(ML) Liberation, CPI and CPI(M) assist the Nitish Kumar authorities from exterior. Kishor, who’s at the moment touring Saran district as a part of a state-wide ‘padayatra’ after which his ‘Jan Suraaj’ is anticipated to change into a full-fledged political outfit, hailed the victory of 59 year-old Ahmed, calling him “a farmers’ son who did not spend a single rupee” within the elections.
“The voters of the Saran Teachers constituency are drawn from districts like Saran, Siwan and Gopalganj, the RJD’s bastions, besides Champaran, a BJP stronghold. Both major political formations in the state have been made to bite the dust”, Kishor instructed a street-corner public assembly. However, CPI’s state secretary Ram Naresh Pandey issued an offended assertion accusing the IPAC founding father of “working for money, at the BJP’s behest” and having “no ideology”.
Biennial elections had been additionally held for 4 different seats of Graduates and Teachers constituencies of which Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) retained two however conceded one to BJP. State BJP president Samrat Choudhary asserted that Awadhesh Narain Singh was all set to win Gaya Graduates, having maintained a lead in seven rounds of counting of votes. Jivan Kumar wrested Gaya Teachers from sitting JD(U) MLC Sanjiv Shyam Singh and Choudhary claimed “the BJP has now become the party with largest number of MLCs in Bihar”.
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State BJP spokesman Nikhil Anand fished in troubled waters, alleging that the RJD had fielded its state president Jagadanand Singh’s son Punit Singh in opposition to Awadhesh Narain Singh to “humiliate” its senior chief. However, JD(U) MLCs Sanjiv Kumar Singh and Virendra Yadav retained Kosi Teachers and Saran graduates respectively, defeating nearest BJP rivals at each locations.
In the 75-strong legislative council, the tally of the JD(U), till now the one largest social gathering, has gone right down to 23, one lower than the quantity BJP may have after Awadhesh Narain Singh is formally declared the winner.
