Sitamarhi Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: BJP’s Mithilesh Kumar Wins, Elected as MLA

Patna, November 10: Mithilesh Kumar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won from the Sitamarhi Vidhan Sabha Seat. Kumar won in the Sitamarhi constituency after defeating Sunil Kumar of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), who is the current MLA of the Sitamarhi constituency, situated in Banka district of Bihar. This constituency falls in the Sitamarhi district of Bihar. The current MLA of the Sitamarhi constituency is Sunil Kumar of the RJD. The voting for the Sitamarhi elections was held in the second phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 on November 3. Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 Phase 2 Dates And Schedule: Voting on November 3, Results to be Announced on November 10.

The Bihar election is one of the biggest elections globally during the COVID-19 pandemic. Polling for Bihar assembly elections was held in three phases on October 28, November 3 and November 7, followed by counting of votes on November 10.

Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 Second Phase Complete Schedule

The main candidates for the Sitamarhi Assembly Election 2020 included Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Mithilesh Kumar, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidate Sunil Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Tunna of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) among other candidates. In the 2015 Bihar elections, Sunil Kumar of the RJD had won from the Sitamarhi seat by defeating BJP candidate Sunil Kumar Alias Pintu.

The voting for the first phase was held on October 28 which covered 71 assembly constituencies, the second-phase voting on November 3 covered 94 seats. The third phase of voting on November 7 covered 78 assembly seats. In Bihar, the ruling NDA will face a challenge from the RJD-Congress alliance (JDU+BJP) and the Mahagathbandhan (RJD+Congress+Left).

The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) has said it would contest alone this time with Chirag Paswan at the helm. Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 are the first major polls amid COVID-19 pandemic. While most are looking at it as a two-way fight between the NDA (JDU+BJP) and Mahagathbandhan (RJD+Congress+Left), the LJP this time has decided to go alone with party President Chirag Paswan taking charge of the all the affairs in the party.

In the outgoing assembly, the RJD has 80 members while the JD (U) has 69. The BJP has 54 seats, Congress has 25, while the remaining seats in the 243-member assembly are held by other parties.

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