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patna, feb 28 (ians) bihar's ruling janata dal-united (jd-u) thursday retained the kalyanpur assembly seat, with its candidate manju kumari defeating lok janshakti party's (ljp) rekha paswan by over 17,000 votes, an election official said. |
the jd-u's victory is a seen as a setback to ljp chief ram vilas paswan and his ally rashtriya janata dal chief lalu prasad, who had repeatedly claimed that people would reject chief minister nitish kumar's jd-u in kalyanpur by-poll.
the ljp was fully supported by the rjd in the by-poll.
the death of sitting jd-u legislator ramsevak hazari necessitated the by-poll in the assembly constituency of samastipur, home of late socialist leader karpoori thakur.
over half a dozen candidates were in the fray for the by-election held feb 24.
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