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Mahua Election Result 2025: Tej Pratap Yadav loses seat to LJP (RV)'s Sanjay Kumar Singh, finishes in 3rd spot
Mahua Election Result 2025: Lalu Prasad's elder son and Janshakti Janta Dal chief Tej Pratap Yadav lost to Sanjay Kumar Singh in Mahua.
Mahua Election Result 2025: Tej Pratap Yadav, son of RJD chief Lalu Prasad and elder brother of Mahagathbandhan’s CM face Tejashwi Yadav, finished in the third spot in Bihar's Mahua seat. LJP (RV) candidate Sanjay Kumar Singh won the seat, after he defeated RJD's Mukesh Kumar Raushan by 44,997 votes.
Tej Pratap Yadav fails to redeem himself
Initially, Tej Pratap was in the lead in Mahua, but eventually trailed. His position in the assembly constituency has been fluctuating since the counting of votes began at 8 am. After the 13th round of voting, Tej Pratap Yadav polled at 16,522 votes, while Singh of LJP (Ram Vilas) bagged 43,654 votes, followed by Mukesh Kumar Raushan of the RJD at 24,480 votes. Amit Kumar of AIMIM, who earlier occupied the third spot, slipped to the fourth position with 10,563 votes polled.
It is a crucial spot for Tej Pratap Yadav who is hoping to redeem himself months after being expelled by his father Lalu Yadav after his post making his 12-year relationship public on social media went viral, even as he deleted it later. The outrage was also caused because the post surfaced even as Tej Pratap's divorce petition with his estranged wife was still pending in court.
Meanwhile, VIP chief Mukesh Sahani stated that people voted for the NDA because they are poor and were promised financial benefits.
“We fought for the public and fulfilled our duty by making people aware of everything. It is up to the public, and they could not understand, so they gave their mandate to the BJP and Nitish ji. I congratulate them, but there are many reasons behind this. They promised ₹1 lakh 90 thousand to women. People are poor, and that is why they voted for them,” Sahani told PTI.
