New Delhi: Former Bihar minister and Lalu Prasad Yadav’s estranged son Tej Pratap Yadav was languishing at the fourth spot at Mahua constituency in Vaishali district with 4,941 votes.

Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)’s Sanjay Kumar is leading with 22,703 votes after seven rounds of counting at 12.35 pm.

Tej Pratap, the Janshakti Janata Dal chief, had earlier expressed confidence of winning the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) stronghold. This is the same constituency from where he won in 2015 by a margin of 28,000-plus votes. Show Full Article

This time, his immediate rival is RJD candidate and incumbent MLA Mukesh Kumar Raushan. The other candidates in the fray are Sanjay Kumar of the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and Indrajeet Pradhan of the Jan Suraaj Party.

The 37-year-old was banished

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