Tarari Vidhan Sabha Seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: Candidates, MLA, Schedule And Result Date

The Tarari Vidhan Sabha constituency falls in the Bhojpur district of Bihar. Voting in Tarari for the Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 will take place on October 28. The Election Commission of India (ECI) on September 25 announced the election schedule for Bihar. Voting for the Tarari election will take place on October 28 in the first phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Counting of votes for the Bihar polls will take place on November 10.

Polling for the 243-member Bihar assembly will be held in three phases. The voting for the first phase of assembly elections in Bihar will take place on October 28 in 71 constituencies. Here is the complete schedule of Phase 1 of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 Dates And Schedule: Voting in 3 Phases on October 28, November 3 and 7, Poll Results on Nov 10.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded Kaushal Kumar Vidyarthi from the Tarari Assembly Constituency, while Mahagathbandhan has fielded sitting MLA Sudama Prasad. He is contesting on the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) ticket. The Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RSLP) has given ticket to Santosh Singh Chandrawanshi. In 2015, Prasad had won the seat defeating Lok Jan Shakti Party’s Gita Pandey.

The Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 is the first major polling exercise since the outbreak of COVID-19 in India. The BJP is contesting 243-seat assembly elections in alliance with Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United (JDU) as part of 50:50 seat division formula. The saffron party will contest on 121 seats, while the JDU will field its candidates on 122 seats. Notably, the JDU will accommodate seven candidates of Jitan Ram Manjhi's HAM(S).  Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 Schedule to be Announced; Here's A Look at 2015 Poll Results And Current Strength of JD(U), RJD, BJP and Congress.

The Congress, a part of the Mahagathbandhan alliance in Bihar, is contesting on 70 out of the 243 seats. As per the seat-sharing pact finalised, the RJD would be fielding its candidates on 144 constituencies, and the Left Front comprising of CPI, CPI(M) and CPI-ML would be fielding their candidates in 29 assembly seats. The term of Bihar assembly will end on November 29.

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