Chirag Paswan's Party Leads In Mahua, Tej Pratap Running At 4th Place
Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 vote counting is going on and a majority mark of 122 constituencies is needed to win the election. The early trends have started coming in, showing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal United (JD(U))-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) maintaining a considerable lead over the opposition alliance- the Mahagathbandhan (MGB).
The latest trends in Mahua reveal that Tej Pratap Yadav is trailing behind (LJP(RV)) leader Sanjay Kumar Singh by a significant margin. RJD leader and current MLA Mukesh Kumar Raushan in the second place with 8,794 votes; and AIMIM’s Amit Kumar has secured 4,569 votes.
Tej Pratap has only secured 2,121 votes, and is trailing by over 10,000 votes to Sanjay Kumar Singh. After he was expelled from the RJD earlier this year- Tej Pratap formed his own party-the JJD. The party’s first list of candidates for this year’s assembly election had a total of 21 candidates. Tej Pratap himself announced his candidacy from Mahua.
The Mahua assembly constituency falls in Bihar’s Vaishali district. Tej Pratap Yadav was the MLA of the constituency in 2015, when he was a memeber of the RJD. However, in 2020, Mukesh Kumar Raushan became the MLA.
RJD’s Mukesh Kumar Raushan emerged victorious in the 2020 assembly elections, 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.
