2024 Indian general election in Bihar explained

The 2024 Indian general election was held in Bihar in all 7 phases from 19 April to 1 June to elect 40 members of the 18th Lok Sabha, with the results declared on 4 June.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Bihar, along with Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, were the only states where the 2024 Indian general election was held in all 7 phases.^[4]

Election schedule

Poll event	Phase
	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII
Notification Date	20 March	28 March	12 April	18 April	26 April	29 April	7 May
Last Date for filing nomination	28 March	4 April	19 April	25 April	3 May	6 May	14 May
Scrutiny of nomination	30 March	5 April	20 April	26 April	4 May	7 May	15 May
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination	02 March	8 April	22 April	29 April	6 May	9 May	17 May
Date of poll	19 April	26 April	7 May	13 May	20 May	25 May	1 June
Date of counting of votes/Result	4 June 2024
No. of constituencies	4	5	5	5	5	8	8

Parties and alliances

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Bharatiya Janata Party			Samrat Choudhary	17
	Janata Dal (United)			Nitish Kumar	16
	Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)			Chirag Paswan	5
	Hindustani Awam Morcha			Jitan Ram Manjhi	1
	Rashtriya Lok Morcha			Upendra Kushwaha	1
	Total				40

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Rashtriya Janata Dal			Lalu Yadav	23
	Indian National Congress			Akhilesh Prasad Singh	9
	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation			Shyam Chandra Chaudhary	3
	Vikassheel Insaan Party			Mukesh Sahani	3
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)			Lalan Chaudhary	1
	Communist Party of India			Ram Naresh Pandey	1
	Total				40

Others

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Bahujan Samaj Party
	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen				11
	Samata Party
	Rashtriya Samaj Paksha
	All India Forward Bloc
	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
	Loktantrik Samajwadi Party

Candidates

Constituency
		NDA			INDIA
1	Valmiki Nagar		Sunil Kumar Kushwaha		Deepak Yadav
2	Paschim Champaran		Sanjay Jaiswal		Madan Mohan Tiwari
3	Purvi Champaran		Radha Mohan Singh		Rajesh Kushwaha
4	Sheohar		Lovely Anand		Ritu Jaiswal
5	Sitamarhi		Devesh Chandra Thakur		Arjun Rai
6	Madhubani		Ashok Kumar Yadav		Ali Ashraf Fatmi
7	Jhanjharpur		Ramprit Mandal		Suman Kumar Mahaseth
8	Supaul		Dileshwar Kamait		Chandrahas Chaupal
9	Araria		Pradeep Kumar Singh		Mohammed Shahnawaz Alam
10	Kishanganj		Mujahid Alam		Mohammad Jawed
11	Katihar		Dulal Chandra Goswami		Tariq Anwar
12	Purnia		Santosh Kumar Kushwaha		Beema Bharti
13	Madhepura		Dinesh Chandra Yadav		Professor Kumar Chandradeep
14	Darbhanga		Gopal Jee Thakur		Lalit Kumar Yadav
15	Muzaffarpur		Raj Bhushan Nishad		Ajay Nishad
16	Vaishali		Veena Devi		Munna Shukla
17	Gopalganj (SC)		Alok Kumar Suman		Premnath Chanchal
18	Siwan				Awadh Bihari Choudhary
19	Maharajganj		Janardan Singh Sigriwal		Akash Prasad Singh
20	Saran		Rajiv Pratap Rudy		Rohini Acharya
21	Hajipur (SC)		Chirag Paswan		Shiv Chandra Ram
22	Ujiarpur		Nityanand Rai		Alok Kumar Mehta
23	Samastipur (SC)		Shambhavi Choudhary		Sunny Hazari
24	Begusarai		Giriraj Singh		Awadhesh Kumar Rai
25	Khagaria		Rajesh Verma		Sanjay Kumar Kushwaha
26	Bhagalpur		Ajay Kumar Mandal		Ajeet Sharma
27	Banka		Giridhari Yadav		Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav
28	Munger		Rajiv Ranjan Singh		Anita Devi Mahto
29	Nalanda		Kaushalendra Kumar		Sandeep Saurav
30	Patna Sahib		Ravi Shankar Prasad		Anshul Avijit Kushwaha
31	Pataliputra		Ram Kripal Yadav		Misa Bharti
32	Arrah		R. K. Singh		Sudama Prasad
33	Buxar		Mithilesh Tiwari		Sudhakar Singh
34	Sasaram (SC)		Shivesh Ram		Manoj Kumar
35	Karakat		RLM	Upendra Kushwaha		Raja Ram Singh Kushwaha
36	Jahanabad		Chandeshwar Prasad		Surendra Prasad Yadav
37	Aurangabad		Sushil Kumar Singh		Abhay Kushwaha
38	Gaya (SC)		Jitan Ram Manjhi		Kumar Sarvjeet
39	Nawada		Vivek Thakur		Shravan Kushwaha
40	Jamui (SC)		Arun Bharti		Archana Ravidas

Campaigns

Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance

The Indian National Congress began its Bihar section of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from Kishanganj on 28 January 2024. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi criticised chief minister Nitish Kumar for rejoining the NDA and said that the Mahagathbandhan did not need him and that it would keep fighting for social justice.^[5] On 15 February, Gandhi resumed his yatra from Bihar's Aurangabad, where he promised a financial survey to assess the ground reality if his alliance comes to power.^[6] The yatra resumed from Sasaram the next day, where Rashtriya Janata Dal chairperson and former state deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav joined the yatra, touring the state with Gandhi in a jeep.^[7]

The Rashtriya Janata Dal began its campaign with its Jan Vishwas Yatra ("People's Trust Yatra") on 20 February 2024. RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav launched the yatra from Muzaffarpur in Bihar. The yatra will last till 1 March 2024 and will have covered 33 districts.^{[8] [9]} In Siwan on 23 February, Yadav termed the BJP "a dustbin" which takes in other parties that have become "garbage".^{[10] [11]} The Rashtriya Janata Dal also worked to expand its social base while holding its core Muslim-Yadav support base firmly. The majority of the candidates of Rashtriya Janata Dal on all 23 seats it contested were from Other Backward Class and Extremely Backward Castes. The party fielded 8 Yadav candidates, while the Koeri and Kurmis also got a fair share. It fielded three Koeris, Alok Kumar Mehta from Ujiarpur, Shravan Kushwaha from Nawada and Abhay Kushwaha from Aurangabad constituency. RJD also fielded six women candidates– Ritu Jaiswal (Sheohar), Anita Devi Mahto (Munger), Bima Bharati (Purnea), Archana Ravidas (Jamui), Misa Bharti (Pataliputra) and Rohini Acharya from Saran.^[12]

RJD also faced opposition from its own party members in constituencies like Nawada, where RJD's sitting legislators Vibha Devi and Prakash Veer were spotted campaigning for independent candidate Vinod Yadav, brother of former RJD legislator, Rajballabh Yadav instead of party's declared candidate Shravan Kushwaha.^[13] In overall ticket distribution of the NDA and INDIA bloc, 16 Yadav candidates were made candidates out of 80 candidates from both sides. The Koeris with 11 candidates were the second largest caste.^[14]

Events and outcomes

During the election, the Karakat Lok Sabha constituency in the Rohtas district of Bihar drew nationwide attention, when Bhojpuri singer and actor Pawan Singh declared that he will contest the Lok Sabha election from there. Earlier, Singh was made a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party from Asansol Lok Sabha constituency against Shatrughan Sinha, but Singh refused to contest from there. Unable to secure the candidature of National Democratic Alliance from Arrah Lok Sabha constituency, he made the contest in the Karakat triangular. It was speculated that he will cut the major chunk of NDA votes of Rajput caste, the community to which he belonged. In the aftermath of voting process, Singh was able to get over two lakh votes, pushing NDA candidate Upendra Kushwaha to the third spot. He was, however, defeated by Raja Ram Singh Kushwaha of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation by a margin of over one lakh votes. The division in votes of NDA due to Singh led to the victory of CPIML candidate.^{[15] [16]}

However, the defeat of former union minister Upendra Kushwaha, who was considered as the tallest leader of the Koeri caste in Bihar, sent shockwaves across the state, specially in the Magadh and Shahabad belt. There witnessed a palpable anger amongst the member of Koeri caste on Pawan Singh contesting from the constituency considered as the stronghold of the community against Upendra Kushwaha. As a consequence, the Koeris across the Shahabad voted again the Rajput candidates and the Bharatiya Janata Party as the Rashtriya Janata Dal and its alliance partners like CPIML were successful in conveying the message that Pawan Singh was sent by Bharatiya Janata Party to spoil the votes of Upendra Kushwaha. This led to defeat of veteran Rajput leaders R. K. Singh and Sushil Kumar Singh in the nearby Arrah and Aurangabad constituency. Besides this, NDA also lost Buxar and Sasaram leading to wiping out of BJP from the whole Shahabad region.^{[17] [18]}

Earlier, BJP had raised Samrat Chaudhary to the post of party's Bihar unit president in a bid to bring Kushwahas within the fold of BJP. However, discontent was seen amongst the Kushwahas on the ground level as Chaudary was not able to field any Kushwaha candidate on the symbol of BJP in 2024 polls. Although, only two out of seven Kushwaha candidates were able to win from the INDI Alliance, the margin of victory of the NDA candidates was drastically reduced on evey seat, where there was a Kushwaha candidate from the side of INDIA bloc. This showed major chunk of Kushwaha voters supporting and voting for INDIA as against NDA.^[19]

Surveys and polls

Exit polls

Voter turnout

Phase wise

Phase	Poll Date	Constituencies[20]	Voter Turnout (%)[21]
I	19 April 2024	Aurangabad, Gaya, Nawada, Jamui	49.26%
II	26 April 2024	Kishanganj, Purnia, Katihar, Bhagalpur, Banka	59.45%
III	7 May 2024	Jhanjarpur, Supaul, Araria, Madhepura, Khagaria	59.14%
IV	13 May 2024	Darbhanga, Ujiarpur, Samastipur, Begusarai, Munger	58.21%
V	20 May 2024	Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur, Saran, Hajipur	56.76%
VI	25 May 2024	Valmiki Nagar, Paschim Champaran, Purvi Champaran, Sheohar, Vaishali, Gopalganj, Siwan, Maharajganj	57.18%
VII	1 June 2024	Nalanda, Patna Sahib, Pataliputra, Arrah, Buxar, Sasaram, Karakat, Jahanabad	53.29%
Total

Constituency wise

Constituency		Poll Date	Turnout	Swing
1	Valmiki Nagar	25 May 2024	60.19%	1.17%
2	Paschim Champaran		61.62%	0.40%
3	Purvi Champaran		59.68%	0.62%
4	Sheohar		57.40%	2.20%
5	Sitamarhi	20 May 2024	56.21%	3.11%
6	Madhubani		53.04%	0.77%
7	Jhanjharpur	7 May 2024	54.48%	2.87%
8	Supaul		63.55%	2.17%
9	Araria		61.93%	2.86%
10	Kishanganj	26 April 2024	62.84%	3.54%
11	Katihar		63.76%	3.88%
12	Purnia		63.08%	2.29%
13	Madhepura	7 May 2024	58.29%	2.60%
14	Darbhanga	13 May 2024	57.37%	0.98%
15	Muzaffarpur	20 May 2024	59.47%	3.56%
16	Vaishali	25 May 2024	62.59%	0.68%
17	Gopalganj (SC)		52.32%	3.46%
18	Siwan		52.49%	2.24%
19	Maharajganj		52.27%	1.55%
20	Saran	20 May 2024	56.73%	0.13%
21	Hajipur (SC)		58.43%	3.17%
22	Ujiarpur	13 May 2024	59.59%	0.56%
23	Samastipur (SC)		60.11%	0.63%
24	Begusarai		58.70%	3.93%
25	Khagaria	7 May 2024	57.48%	0.23%
26	Bhagalpur	26 April 2024	53.50%	3.70%
27	Banka		54.48%	4.12%
28	Munger	13 May 2024	55.55%	0.65%
29	Nalanda	1 June 2024	49.78%	5.01%
30	Patna Sahib		46.85%	1.05%
31	Pataliputra		59.27%	3.24%
32	Arrah		50.27%	1.54%
33	Buxar		55.39%	1.44%
34	Sasaram (SC)		57.16%	2.59%
35	Karakat		54.68%	5.59%
36	Jahanabad		55.09%	3.33%
37	Aurangabad	19 April 2024	50.35%	3.32%
38	Gaya (SC)		52.76%	3.42%
39	Nawada		43.17%	6.56%
40	Jamui (SC)		51.25%	4.00%

Results

Results by alliance or party

Alliance/ Party				Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
NDA		BJP	8,885,818	20.52%	3.53	17	12	5
	JD(U)	8,020,732	18.52%	3.74	16	12	4
	LJP(RV)	2,803,936	6.47%		5	5	5
	HAM	494,960			1	1	1
	RLM	253,876			1	0
Total		20,459,322			40	30	9
INDIA		RJD	9,588,365	22.14%	6.46	23	4	4
	INC	3,983,882	9.20%	1.35	9	3	2
	CPI(ML)L	1,293,538	2.99%		3	2	2
	VIP	1,187,455			3	0
	CPI	564,310	1.30%		1	0
	CPI(M)	375,988	0.87%		1	0
Total		16,993,538			40	9	8
	Others
	IND							1	1
	NOTA			8,97,323	2.07%
Total					100%	-		40	-

Results by constituency

Constituency		Turnout	Winner							Runner Up							Margin
			Party		Alliance		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Alliance		Candidate	Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Valmiki Nagar	60.19%			Sunil Kumar	5,23,422	47.5%			Deepak Vadav	4,24,747	38.55%	98,675	8.95%
2	Paschim Champaran	61.62%			Sanjay Jaiswal	5,80,421	53.43%			Madan Mohan Tiwari	4,43,853	40.86%	1,36,568	12.57%
3	Purvi Champaran	59.68%			Radha Mohan Singh	5,80,421	50.5%			Rajesh Kumar	4,43,853	42.28%	88,287	8.22%
4	Sheohar	57.40%			Lovely Anand	5,23,422	45.15%			Ritu Jaiswal	4,24,747	42.39%	29,143	2.76%
5	Sitamarhi	56.21%			Devesh Chandra Thakur	5,15,719	47.14%			Arjun Ray	4,64,363	42.45%	51,356	4.69%
6	Madhubani	53.04%			Ashok Kumar Yadav	5,53,428	53.85%			Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi	4,24,747	39.07%	1,51,945	14.78%
7	Jhanjharpur	54.48%			Ramprit Mandal	5,33,032	48.73%			Suman Kumar Mahaseth	3,48,863	31.9%	1,84,169	16.83%
8	Supaul	63.55%			Dileshwar Kamait	5,95,038	48.33%			Chandrahas Chaupal	4,25,235	34.54%	1,69,803	13.79%
9	Araria	61.93%			Pradeep Kumar Singh	6,00,146	47.91%			Mohammed Shahnawaz Alam	5,80,052	46.31%	20,094	1.60%
10	Kishanganj	62.84%			Mohammad Jawed	4,02,850	35%			Mujahid Alam	3,43,158	29.81%	59,692	5.19%
11	Katihar	63.76%			Tariq Anwar	5,67,092	48.41%			Dulal Chandra Goswami	5,17,229	44.15%	49,863	4.26%
12	Purnia	63.08%			Others	Pappu Yadav	5,67,556	47.46%			Santosh Kumar	5,43,709	45.47%	23,847	1.99%
13	Madhepura	58.29%			Dinesh Chandra Yadav	6,40,649	52.96%			Da Kumar Chandrareep	4,66,115	38.53%	1,74,534	14.43%
14	Darbhanga	57.37%			Gopal Jee Thakur	5,66,630	55.33%			Lalit Kumar Yadav	3,88,474	37.93%	1,78,156	17.40%
15	Muzaffarpur	59.47%			Raj Bhushan Nishad	6,19,749	55.71%			Ajay Nishad	3,84,822	34.59%	2,34,927	21.12%
16	Vaishali	62.59%			Veena Devi	5,67,043	48.38%			Vijay Kumar Shukla	4,77,409	40.73%	89,634	7.65%
17	Gopalganj (SC)	52.32%			Alok Kumar Suman	5,11,866	48.15%			Chanchal Paswan	3,84,686	36.19%	1,27,180	11.96%
18	Siwan	52.49%			Vijaylakshmi Devi	3,86,508	38.73%			Others	Hena Shahab	2,93,651	29.42%	92,857	9.31%
19	Maharajganj	52.27%			Janardan Singh	5,29,533	52.22%			Aakash Kumar Singh	4,26,882	42.09%	1,02,651	10.13%
20	Saran	56.73%			Rajiv Pratap Rudy	4,71,752	46.18%			Rohini Acharya	4,58,091	44.84%	13,661	1.34%
21	Hajipur (SC)	58.43%			Chirag Paswan	6,15,718	53.29%			Shiv Chandra Ram	4,45,613	38.57%	1,70,105	14.72%
22	Ujiarpur	59.59%			Nityanand Rai	5,15,965	49.51%			Alok Kumar Mehta	4,55,863	43.75%	60,102	5.76%
23	Samastipur (SC)	60.11%			Shambhavi Choudhary	5,79,786	52.97%			Sunny Hazari	3,92,535	35.86%	1,87,251	17.11%
24	Begusarai	58.70%			Giriraj Singh	6,49,331	50.15%			Abdhesh Kumar Roy	5,67,851	43.86%	81,480	6.29%
25	Khagaria	57.48%			Rajesh Verma	5,38,657	50.73%			Sanjay Kumar	3,77,526	35.55%	1,61,131	15.18%
26	Bhagalpur	53.50%			Ajay Kumar Mandal	5,36,031	50.38%			Ajeet Sharma	4,31,163	40.52%	1,04,868	9.86%
27	Banka	54.48%			Giridhari Yadav	5,06,678	49.96%			Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav	4,02,834	39.72%	1,03,844	10.24%
28	Munger	55.55%			Lalan Singh	5,50,146	48.3%			Kumari Anita	4,69,276	41.2%	80,870	7.10%
29	Nalanda	49.78%			Kaushalendra Kumar	5,59,422	48.88%			Sandeep Saurav	3,90,308	34.11%	1,69,114	14.77%
30	Patna Sahib	46.85%			Ravi Shankar Prasad	5,88,270	54.7%			Anshul Avijit	4,34,424	40.39%	1,53,846	14.31%
31	Pataliputra	59.27%			Misha Bharti	6,13,283	49.86%			Ram Kripal Yadav	5,28,109	42.93%	85,174	6.93%
32	Arrah	50.27%			Sudama Prasad	5,29,382	48.28%			Raj Kumar Singh	4,69,574	42.82%	59,808	5.46%
33	Buxar	55.39%			Sudhakar Singh	4,38,345	40.82%			Mithilesh Tiwari	4,08,254	38.02%	30,091	2.80%
34	Sasaram (SC)	57.16%			Manoj Kumar	5,13,004	46.76%			Shivesh Kumar	4,93,847	45.01%	19,157	1.75%
35	Karakat	54.68%			Raja Ram Singh Kushwaha	3,80,581	36.89%			Others	Pawan Singh	2,74,723	26.63%	1,05,858	10.26%
36	Jahanabad	55.09%			Surendra Prasad Yadav	4,43,035	47.88%			Chandeshwar Prasad	3,00,444	32.47%	1,42,591	15.41%
37	Aurangabad	50.35%			Abhay Kushwaha	4,65,567	49.22%			Sushil Kumar Singh	3,86,456	40.86%	79,111	8.36%
38	Gaya (SC)	52.76%			Jitan Ram Manjhi	4,94,960	51.36%			Kumar Sarvjeet	3,93,148	40.8%	1,01,812	10.56%
39	Nawada	43.17%			Vivek Thakur	4,10,608	47.2%			Shrawan Kumar	3,42,938	39.42%	67,670	7.78%
40	Jamui (SC)	51.25%			Arun Bharti	5,09,046	51.98%			Archana Kumari	4,45,613	40.5%	1,12,482	11.48%

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

Party				Assembly segments	Current Position in the Assembly
NDA		JD(U)	74	45
	BJP	67	78
	LJP(RV)	29	0
	HAM(S)	4	4
Total		174	127
INDIA		RJD	36	79
	INC	12	19
	CPI(ML)L	12	12
	CPI	1	2
	CPI(M)	0	2
	VIP	1	0
Total		62	114
Others		Independents	5	1
	AIMIM	2	1
Total		7	2
Total				243

See also

• • 2024 Indian general election in Chandigarh 2024 Indian general election in Chhattisgarh
• 2024 Indian general election in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lok Sabha Election 2024: जदयू से अलग होने के बाद बिहार में लोकसभा सीट जीतना भाजपा के लिए कितना कठिन जानें. 19 December 2022 .
2. Web site: Opposition will unify for 2024 elections: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar. The Statesman. 3 September 2022.
3. Web site: नीतीश कुमार 'मिशन 24' की तैयारियों में जुटे, जेडीयू ऑफिस में करेंगे बड़ी बैठक.
4. Web site: 2024-03-17 . Lok Sabha election 2024: Which state, UT will vote in how many phases? Check details . 2024-03-17 . Hindustan Times . en.
5. News: Tewary . Amarnath . 2024-01-30 . Nitish Kumar caved under pressure; don't need his support: Rahul Gandhi . 2024-02-12 . The Hindu . en-IN . 0971-751X.
6. Web site: After 'Caste Census', Rahul Gandhi Promises 'Financial Survey' . 2024-02-16 . Free Press Journal . en.
7. Web site: Rahul Gandhi tours Bihar in jeep during yatra, Tejashwi Yadav in driver's seat . 2024-02-16 . India Today . 16 February 2024 . en.
8. News: 2024-02-19 . Bihar: Tejashwi Yadav to kickstart Jan Vishwas Yatra tomorrow . 2024-02-25 . The Economic Times . 0013-0389.
9. Web site: Raj . Dev . Tejashwi Yadav begins Jan Vishwas Yatra, slams Nitish Kumar in kickoff to Lok Sabha campaign . 2024-02-25 . . en.
10. News: Bhelari . Amit . 2024-02-23 . Impressive turnout at Tejashwi's Jan Vishwas Yatra in Bihar . 2024-02-25 . The Hindu . en-IN . 0971-751X.
11. Web site: Raj . Dev . 23 February 2023 . Tejashwi Yadav slams BJP for giving swords in hands of people, becoming 'dustbin' . 2024-02-25 . . en.
12. Web site: OBCs form bulk of RJD's Bihar list; Yadavs, EBCs follow. Indian express. 10 April 2024 . 10 April 2024.
13. News: In an unusual twist, RJD MLAs campaign in support of the Independent candidate in Bihar's Nawada. The Hindu. 9 April 2024 . 11 April 2024 . Bhelari . Amit .
14. Web site: बिहार लोकसभा चुनाव: हर पांचवा उम्मीदवार यादव, फिर भी दबदबा किसी और का ही . jansatta. 29 April 2024 . 5 May 2024.
15. News: Neta vs abhineta: the Karakat battle pits a veteran politician against a Bhojpuri actor . The Hindu. 7 June 2024 . Bhelari . Amit .
16. Web site: लालू-तेजस्वी से कोइरी वोट बचाने की कोशिश में जेडीयू? नीतीश ने बिहार चुनाव . live Hindustan. 5 August 2024.
17. News: Tejaswi Yadav cashes in on Kushwaha factor cuts BJP numbers . The Economic Times. 7 June 2024 . Anshuman . Kumar .
18. Web site: Door-to-Door Campaigning, Local Caste Equations Fuel CPI (ML) Liberation's Victory in Bihar. The Wire. 7 June 2024.
19. Web site: बिहार में फेल रहा बीजेपी का कुशवाहा प्रयोग:सम्राट चौधरी भाजपा नेता जरूर बने, लेकिन जाति की राजनीति में मात खा गए. Dainik Bhaskar. 13 June 2024.
20. Web site: 2024-03-16 . Bihar Lok Sabha election dates 2024: Polling to be held in 7 phases; check schedule, constituency-wise details . 2024-03-17 . Moneycontrol . en.
21. Web site: Voter turnout of 66.14% in phase 1 and 66.71% in phase 2 recorded in General Elections 2024 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240502200656/https://pib.gov.in/ErrorPage.html?aspxerrorpath=/pib.gov.in/Pressreleaseshare.aspx . 2 May 2024 . 2024-05-02 . pib.gov.in.