RJD Wins Darbhanga Graduates’ Constituency

The RJD has won the Darbhanga Graduates’ constituency in the Bihar Legislative Council elections. Anil Kumar Jha, the RJD candidate, defeated BJP nominee Sarvesh Kumar by 450 votes.

The counting process took nearly 60 hours and involved multiple rounds of preference-based counting and elimination. Initially, BJP candidate Sarvesh Kumar led with 16,115 votes, but the outcome changed after the counting of second-preference votes.

The election was a close contest between BJP and RJD, with Jan Suraaj Party candidate Mohammad Imtiaz Noorani also securing a substantial number of first-preference votes.

After his victory, Jha described the result as a victory of “people’s strength” over “money power”. The RJD has won two seats in the Bihar MLC polls, while the BJP has also won two seats. JD(U) and Jan Suraaj won one seat each, and two Independents also won their seats.