 "Madhepura, Dinesh Chandra Yadav: JDU (incumbent), Kumar Chandradeep Yadav: RJD")
Dinesh Chandra Yadav of JDU is up towards RJD’s Kumar Chandradeep Yadav in Madhepura
Madhepura, which lies within the flood-prone Kosi river valley, has been a ‘Yadav’ stronghold ever since Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal, the person who chaired the Second Backward Class Fee, higher referred to as the Mandal Fee, received the seat in 1968 and once more in 1977.
Madhepura has since despatched such leaders as former Union minister Sharad Yadav, former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad and Pappu (Rajesh Ranjan) Yadav, to the Lok Sabha.
In 2019, Janata Dal (United)’s Dinesh Chandra Yadav comprehensively defeated Rashtriya Janata Dal’s ageing chief Sharad Yadav. The latter had parted methods with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and stop the JD (U) when Kumar returned to the fold of the Bharatiya Janata Get together-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance.
Sharad Yadav made peace together with his one-time rival Lalu Prasad to contest from Madhepura. He received the seat on 4 events, in 1991, 1996, 1999 and 2009), and misplaced from it in 1998, 2004, 2014 and 2019. In 1998 and 2004, Sharad Yadav misplaced to Lalu Prasad.
In response to the estimates of political events, no less than a 3rd of the constituency’s citizens are Yadavs, including grist to a neighborhood adage, “Rome Pope ka, Madhepura Gope ka (the Pope guidelines Rome, Yadavs rule Madhepura).
For the 2024 battle, the RJD-led grand alliance has fielded Kumar Chandradeep Yadav, an English professor in a Patna school. He’s the son of former Madhepura MP Ramendra Kumar Yadav, who received from the seat on a Janata Dal ticket in 1989.
First Revealed: Could 04 2024 | 12:34 AM IST
