Kurhani Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: RJD's Anil Kumar Sahni Wins, Elected as MLA

Kurhani Vidhan Sabha seat is located in the Muzaffarpur district of Bihar. Kurhani constituency falls under the Muzaffarpur Lok Sabha constituency of the seat. It has been a BJP seat since 2015. But RJD's Anil Kumar Sahni won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Polling for the Kurhani election took place in the third phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 on November 7. The counting of votes took place on November 10.

Bihar Assembly Election 2020 took place in three phases. Voting for these phases took place on October 28, November 3, and November 7. Bihar election results 2020 were declared on November 10. In Phase 3, voting took place on 78 seats, including Kurhani, on November 7.

In Bihar elections 2015, Kedar Prasad Gupta of the BJP had won from the Kurhani seat, defeating three-time JDU MLA Manoj Kumar Singh. The candidates for Bihar Election 2020 on the Kurhani Assembly seat included BJP's sitting MLA Kedar Prasad Gupta, RJD's Anil Kumar Sahni, and Ram Babu Singh of RLSP among others.

Bihar Assembly Election 2020 was the first major election in the country amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The state was said to be witnessing a three-way fight with Nitish Kumar being the CM face of the NDA (BJP+JDU), Tejashwi Yadav being the CM face of the Mahagathbandhan (RJD+Congress+Left) and Chirag Paswan being the CM face of LJP.

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