JD(U)'s Dinesh Chandra Yadav And His Win From "Yadav Land" Madhepura

The Janata Dal (United) candidate Dinesh Chandra Yadav won a second term with 6,40,649 votes. His nearest rival Dr. Kumar Chandradeep from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) secured 4,66,115 votes. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate won with a significant margin of 1,74,534 votes.

Known as the “Yadav land” for electing MPs from the Yadav community since 1967, the Madhepura Lok Sabha constituency’s 25 percent population is the Yadavs.

The JD(U) candidate was elected as the MP from Khagaria in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. An engineer by profession, Dinesh Chandra Yadav has a diploma in civil engineering. In the 2019 elections, Yadav won the Madhepura seat with over 6 lakh votes, defeating RJD’s Sharad Yadav who won over 3 lakh votes.

The RJD candidate Dr. Kumar Chandradeep is a senior faculty member in the English Department of the College of Commerce, Arts & Science, Patna.

Since 1991, the seat has been going back and forth between RJD President Lalu Prasad Yadav and former JD(U) President Sharad Yadav. The 2014 national elections saw Pappu Yadav contest on the RJD ticket and secure a win against Sharad Yadav and the BJP’s Vijay Kumar Singh with 3.6 lakh votes.

The seat went back to JD(U) in the subsequent Lok Sabha elections, with Dinesh Chandra Yadav winning with 6.2 lakh votes while RJD’s Sharad Yadav won 3.2 lakh votes. Jan Adhikar Party’s (JAP) Pappu Yadav won merely 97,631 votes, coming in third.

Madhepura is also known for being the ancestral district of BP Mandal, who chaired the Mandal Commission, which led to the reservation for the OBC category.