Bihar Assembly Election 2020: JD(U) looking to win Kurtha for third straight time

Kurtha is one in all two meeting seats in Bihar’s Arwal district, the opposite being Arwal. A Janata Dal(United)-held seat since 2010, Kurtha will go to polls within the first of three phases, on October 28.

Kurtha additionally comes below the Jahanabad Lok Sabha constituency. JD(U)’s Satyadeo Singh has been the sitting MLA from this constituency since 2010 and has been fielded by the celebration but once more as a candidate of the state’s ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition.

Meanwhile, the incumbent Lok Sabha MP from Jahanabad is Chandeshwar Prasad, additionally from the JD(U).

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In the 2015 meeting polls, Satyadeo Singh had retained this seat by defeating Ashok Kumar Verma of the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP). Singh secured 46,376 votes whereas Verma managed 29,557, in keeping with elections.in, which meant Singh received by a margin of 16,819 votes.

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In 2010, in the meantime, Singh had received this seat by defeating Shiv Bachan Yadav of the RJD.

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Besides Singh, different candidates contesting from this seat embody RJD’s Bagi Verma, LJP’s Bhuwneshwar Pathak and RLSP’s Pappu Kumar Verma. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress haven’t fielded their candidates from this constituency as their respective alliance companions, the JD(U) and the RJD, are contesting from right here.

Around 241,000 voters from Kurtha will train their proper to vote, of which almost 124,000 and 115,000 are female and male voters, respectively.

The different two dates on which voting will happen in Bihar are November three and November 7. Counting of votes, in the meantime, will happen on November 10.

The ruling NDA has fielded CM Nitish Kumar as its chief ministerial candidate. RJD chief and Kumar’s former deputy, Tejashwi Yadav, in the meantime, is the candidate for the state’s high publish of the opposition Mahagathbandhan coalition.