Alinagar election results: BJP bets on Maithili Thakur’s star appeal

NEW DELHI: As counting begins connected Friday morning, each eyes are connected Alinagar, wherever the BJP is attempting to triumph the spot for the archetypal clip since its instauration successful 2008. The enactment has fielded Maithili vocalist Maithili Thakur, banking connected her popularity and taste link successful Mithilanchal to marque inroads successful a constituency agelong dominated by determination players.Thakur faces a nonstop contention with RJD’s Binod Mishra, who finished runner-up successful 2020, and Jan Suraj’s Biplaw Chaudhary. The seat, falling nether Darbhanga territory and portion of the Darbhanga Lok Sabha constituency, is successful the General category.Political observers accidental the Alinagar result volition bespeak however acold the BJP’s outreach done younker icons and taste individuality authorities resonates successful the region. Thakur’s candidature marks a strategical shift, with the enactment hoping her entreaty among young and first-time voters could plaything the spot its way.In the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections, the Alinagar contention was among the closest successful the state. Mishri Lal Yadav of the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) had edged retired Binod Mishra (RJD) by conscionable 3,101 votes, securing 61,082 votes to Mishra’s 57,981. Five years earlier, successful 2015, RJD’s Abdul Bari Siddiqui had comfortably won the spot with 67,461 votes, defeating his nearest rival by implicit 13,000 votes.

With Thakur entering the fray, this year’s contention has taken connected a caller dimension. The BJP is seeking to grow its basal successful northbound Bihar beyond its accepted municipality and upper-caste strongholds. The RJD, meanwhile, is counting connected its organisational web and caste arithmetic to clasp its edge.Counting for each 243 assembly constituencies begins astatine 8:00am, and aboriginal trends from Alinagar are expected to acceptable the code for the broader Darbhanga region.