Darbhanga Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: BJP's Sanjay Saraogi Wins, Elected as MLA

BJP's Sanjay Saraogi won the Darbhanga Vidhan Sabha constituency of the 243 constituencies in the Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. The Election Commission of India (ECI) had announced a 3-phase election in Bihar. The first phase of Bihar Vidhan Sabha Polls took place on October 28 (for 71 seats), while the second and third phase of elections took place on November 3 (for 94 seats) and November 7 (for 78 seats) respectively.

The Bihar Elections 2020 results were declared on November 10, i.e. Tuesday. Counting of votes began at 8 am on Tuesday.

In the 2015 Bihar Assembly Elections, it was Sanjay Saraogi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who defeated Om Prakash Kheria of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), by a victory margin of 7,000 votes. In 2010 Bihar Polls, it was Sanjay who won from the Darbhanga seat, after defeating Sultan Ahmed of the RJD. Saraogi (BJP) fought the 2020 poll against Amarnath Gami (RJD).

Incumbent Bihar CM Nitish Kumar was declared as the CM face of the NDA alliance. As for Mahagathbandhan, Tejashwi Yadav was being projected as the CM candidate. With LJP’s chief Chirag Paswan deciding to contest alone in this election, many were seeing the election as an interesting one.

(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Nov 10, 2020 03:08 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).