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Bihar voters reject bahubalis

Last Updated 17 May 2009, 18:27 IST

When those facing murder charges were debarred by the court from entering the fray, they did the next best thing and fielded their better-halves.

But the conscious electorate of Bihar showed the door to them even.
Leading the pack was Pappu Yadav, whose wife Ranjeeta Ranjan had to bite the dust in Supaul where she, after deserting the (Lok Janshakti Party) LJP, contested on a Congress ticket.

Outright rejection

Lovely Anand, wife of incarcerated former MP Anand Mohan, who is serving life-term on the charge of killing a bureaucrat, met a similar fate when the voters rejected her outrightly in her Rajput-dominated bastion of Sheohar.

The most dreadful of all, Md Shahabuddin, cooling his heels in Siwan jail, fielded his wife Heena Shahab.

Making her debut, the reluctant politician Heena lost to an Independent Om Prakash Yadav from a safe seat which was considered Siwan strongman’s fiefdom.
Paswan’s closest associate Surajbhan Singh, who was debarred by the court from contesting election as he was a murder accused, had fielded his wife Veena Devi from Nawada. The don’s wife too had to bite the dust

Even Cheif Minister Nitish Kumar of Janata Dal (United) was no exception when it came to choose between the good and the bad.

Leader of the JD (U) Parliamentary Party in 14th Lok Sabha Prabhunath Singh, who is allegedly involved in 40 criminal cases, including one murder case, lost from Maharajganj, the constituency which had earlier sent him to Lok Sabha thrice.

Similarly, the Janata Dal (U) nominee from Vaishali Munna Shukla who was a co-accused along with Anand Mohan in a DM’s murder case, lost to Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, the Union minister for Rural Development.

Yet another politician with shady past Md Taslimuddin, who had to quit as Minister of State for Home during Deve Gowda’s regime in 1996, lost to Congress’s Asrarul Haq from Kishanganj.

Significantly, Lalu’s estranged brother-in-law Sadhu Yadav too got the boot in West Champaran where Dr Sanjay Jaiswal of the BJP convinced the electorate that this Sadhu was no saint.
DH News Service

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(Published 17 May 2009, 18:27 IST)

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