Bihar polls: Tej Pratap leads, Tejashwi in front with over 5,000 votes

After trailing for some time Lalu Prasads elder son Tej Pratap Yadav took a lead of more than 1300 votes over his rival candidate of ruling Janata DalUnited JDU from the Hasanpur Assembly seat while his younger brother and Mahagathbandhans Chief Ministerial face Tejashwi Yadav widened his lead by over 5000 votes in the Raghopur Assembly constituencyTej Pratap who was trailing in the earlier trends took the lead of over 1300 votes over his rival Raj Kumar Ray of the JDUTej Pratap who had won from the Mahua Assembly seat in 2015 has shifted his seat to Hasanpur in this Assembly polls With 20451 votes Tej Pratap is leading Ray who has got 19118 votes so farRakesh Ranjan aka Pappu Yadavs Jan Adhikar Party JAP candidate from Hasanpur Arjun Prasad Yadav has 2864 votes and LJPs Manish Kumar has 3788 votesMeanwhile Tejashwi widened his lead by over 5000 votes in the Raghopur Assembly seat with 17575 votes His rival BJPs Satish Kumar was trailing by over 5000 votes with 12248 votes in his kitty Tejashwi had won the 2015 Assembly seat from Raghopur which was once represented by Lalu Prasad between 1995 and 2005After Lalu Prasad the seat was represented by his wife Rabri Devi between 2005 and 2010 In 2010 BJPs Satish Kumar had defeated Rabri Devi The Raghopur seat is considered as one of the strongholds of Lalu PrasadMeanwhile Sharad Yadavs daughter Subhashini Bundela who contested as the Congress candidate from Bihariganj is now leading by a narrow margin of just 8 votesAccording to the poll panel Subashini has so far got 19693 votes while her opponent JDUs Niranjan Kumar Mehta has got 19685 votes till nowEarlier in the day she was trailing her rival candidate by over 2000 votesLovely Anand the wife of jailed former MP Anand Mohan who contested as a RJD candidate is trailing by over 20000 votes in the Saharsa Assembly constituency Alok Ranjan of the BJP is leading with 50574 votes while Lovely Anand has so far got 31956 votes in the early trendsBihar voted for the 243member Assembly in three phases on October 28 November 3 and November 7The RJD had won 80 seats in the 2015 Assembly polls while the JDU had won 71 seats The BJP had won 53 seats and the LJP managed two seatsThe Bihar elections are being seen as a referendum on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar whose JDU is in alliance with the BJPled NDA Nitish Kumar has governed Bihar three times in a row since 2005Keep scrolling to read more newsCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates MidDay is now on Telegram Click here to join our channel middayinfomedialtd and stay updated with the latest newsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever