Last Updated on 09/07/2024 by wccexam Desk
Interesting contest in Rupauli seat by-election.
Headlines
- By-election is being held on Rupauli seat of Bihar, voting will be held on July 10
- The contest is between JDU’s Kaladhar Mandal and RJD’s Bima Bharti
- This seat has become a matter of prestige between RJD and JDU
Rupauli seat By-election 2024 : Rupauli seat of Bihar is also included in the 13 assembly seats of seven states where by-elections are going to be held on Wednesday. The contest on this seat is being said to be triangular. This seat has become a battle of prestige between NDA and Mahagathbandhan. Bima Bharti from Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) is once again in the election fray. She has lost the Lok Sabha election from Purnia seat. Now she is trying to reach the assembly from Rupauli seat. Bima Bharti was defeated by independent candidate Pappu Yadav on Purnia seat. However, Pappu Yadav has supported Bima in the by-election. Kaladhar Mandal from JDU is in the election fray from NDA. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has tried his best to make Mandal win the election. Nitish, Chirag Paswan and Jitan Ram Manjhi held rallies for Mandal. Voting on this seat will be held on July 10 and the election results will be declared on July 13.
Pappu Yadav supported Bima Bharti
Independent MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav on Monday announced his “full support” to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidate Bima Bharti in the by-election to the Rupauli assembly seat. “Ideology is a big thing, it is vanishing in politics today. But I am the bearer of ideological politics, I am with the Congress ideology. So dismissing all personal hatred towards me, I have my full support to the Congress-backed candidate in the Rupauli assembly constituency,” Yadav said on X.
Pappu Yadav contested the election as an independent candidate
Before the Lok Sabha elections, Pappu Yadav had expressed his desire to merge his ‘Jan Adhikar Party’ with Congress and contest the Lok Sabha elections on the party ticket, but after RJD fielded Bima Bharti, Yadav contested the elections as an independent candidate. After facing defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, Bharti is again in the electoral fray as a RJD candidate.
The seat became vacant due to Bharti’s resignation
Bharti, who left Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JDU) and joined RJD a few months ago, had resigned from the assembly membership, due to which the by-election on Rupauli assembly seat became necessary. In the Rupauli assembly seat by-election, Bharti is contesting against JDU candidate Kaladhar Prasad Mandal and independent Shankar Singh. Shankar Singh was earlier an MLA of Lok Janshakti Party (LJP).
Gangota voters are the highest in this seat
JDU’s big leaders Sanjay Jha, Lalan Singh along with more than a dozen ministers, MPs, MLAs were camping here. From the RJD’s side, party MPs, MLAs, former ministers including Tejaswi Yadav took charge. If political analysts are to be believed, the highest number of Gangota voters in the assembly constituency is more than 70 thousand. There are 45 thousand Kurmi-Kushwaha voters and 50 thousand Yadav-Muslim voters. Apart from these, there are also votes of tribals, Scheduled Caste, Vaishya etc. in good numbers here. There are currently 11 candidates in the election fray.