Bihar: Parliamentary elections

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Bihar: 2014 Lok Sabha results The Times of India

2014

Bihar: 2014 Lok Sabha results The Times of India

Lalu's daughter, wife bite dust; Paswans make it

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Bihar: 2014 Lok Sabha results

The Times of India May 17 2014

Bihar results were a major setback for RJD chief Lalu Prasad and a big boost for LJP boss Ramvilas Paswan. While Lalu's wife Rabri Devi and daughter Misa Bharti lost along with Congres's Meira Kumar, the LJP chief made it to the Lok Sabha along with his son Chirag and brother Ram Chandra Paswan.

Among other big guns who lost were JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav and filmmaker Prakash Jha, and RJD's Prabhunath Singh and Raghuvansh Prasad Singh. But the focus of attention were star kids Chirag and Misa, for whom their parties worked tirelessly for weeks.

Chirag was in a close contest with Bihar speaker Uday Narain Choudhary of JD(U) and RJD's Sudhanshu Shekhar Bhaskar. Both finished almost one lakh votes behind him. “My victory is my father's who went against many people and decided to field me from a key constituency ,“ said a beaming Chirag. Once a Bollywood wannabe, Chirag will now be sharing a seat in the Lok Sabha with his father who won from Hajipur against Sanjeev Prasad Toni of Congres by over 80,000 votes. Ramvilas's brother won Samastipur defeating Congres's Ashok Kumar by nearly 10,000 votes.

Pataliputra was the key constituency for Lalu Prasad after his `Hanuman' Ram Kripal switched over to BJP and contested against Misa. Lalu had left no stone unturned to ensure her victory , but she lost to her `chacha' by over 45,000 votes.

Rabri Devi, who was trying to retain her husband Lalu's fort in Saran, lost to BJP's Rajiv Pratap Rudy by over 40,000 votes. Lalu was the Saran MP before he was disqualified from contesting after conviction in a fodder scam case. Meanwhile, Meira lost to Chhedi Paswan of BJP in Sasaram by over 63,000 votes.

Interestingly , a husbandwife duo also made it to the LS from two different parties. Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav (RJD) defeated JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav by close to 60,000 votes in Madhepura while his wife Ranjeet Ranjan of Congres defeated Dileshwar Kamait of JD(U) in neighbouring Supaul by almost 50,000 votes.