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Two Rajput candidates successful 2 regions are contesting elections for their governmental survival, but their profiles could not beryllium much different. One is battling the bequest of a ‘don’ and the different is pursuing the footsteps of a antheral who has ne'er compromised connected his ideology.
Chetan Anand, lad of erstwhile MP and don-turned-politician Anand Mohan, is contesting from the Nabinagar Assembly spot successful Aurangabad territory which falls nether the Magadh portion connected a Janata Dal (United) ticket.
Ajit Kumar, lad of Jagdanand Singh, erstwhile Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) authorities portion president and known as man of his words, is contesting from Ramgarh successful Kaimur successful the Shahabad portion from the RJD.
Janata Dal (United) campaigner Chetan Anand speaks to the villagers of Pipra Panchayat successful Nabinagar Assembly constituency. | Photo Credit: Amit Bhelari
Mr. Anand, who won the 2020 Assembly predetermination connected an RJD summons from Sheohar, changed his loyalty and joined the campy of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during the spot ballot successful the Assembly past year.
That time, the Opposition had accused the Nitish Kumar authorities of tweaking the regularisation of the jailhouse manual to facilitate the merchandise of Anand Mohan who was serving a beingness condemnation for the execution of erstwhile District Magistrate of Gopalganj G. Krishnaiah. He was released successful April 2023 on with 26 different prisoners.
It is believed that to honour Mr. Kumar for the merchandise of his father, Mr. Chetan had joined the ruling campy to prevention the authorities during the spot vote. However, helium has been shifted to Nabinagar which was erstwhile represented by his parent Lovely Anand mode backmost successful 1996.
The 33-year-old JD(U) campaigner has the enactment of his begetter who is aggressively campaigning for his lad and making door-to-door visits to question votes.
Nabinagar had fixed Bihar its archetypal Deputy Chief Minister successful Anugrah Narayan Sinha who besides served the State’s Finance Minister successful 1952. Later, his lad Satyendra Narayan Sinha contested from this spot and became the Chief Minister successful 1989 from the Congress. This time, the RJD has replaced its winning campaigner Vijay Kumar Singh and has fielded Amod Kumar Singh from the seat.
Mr. Chetan, who was campaigning successful Bairia colony nether Pipra Panchayat on with his woman Ayushi Singh, a doctor, said helium is arrogant of his legacy. “My begetter is my enactment and backbone. The benignant of emotion I americium getting from the radical of Nabinagar is owed to the bully enactment done by my begetter and mother,” helium said.
Asked astir the crushed for leaving the RJD, Mr. Chetan said, “You person seen what the RJD has done with the sitting candidate. When the question volition beryllium raised connected self-respect and dignity, I volition ne'er compromise. The RJD leaders utilized to talk sick astir my father, truthful I had nary different enactment left.”
In Nabinagar, Rajputs comprise a ample chunk of voters followed by Scheduled Caste voters. Hoping to get the enactment of Rajput voters, Mr. Chetan is giving much clip successful visiting the villages wherever SC voters are successful ample numbers. At Bairia, helium touched the feet of the radical and enquired if their families person received ₹10,000 nether the Chief Minister’s employment strategy and 125 units of escaped electricity.
Unlike his father, Mr. Chetan is soft-spoken and does not suffer his cool. Having completed his schooling from Welham Boy’s School, Dehradun, helium went connected to get a bachelor’s grade from Symbiosis International University, Pune.
On the different hand, 45-year-old Mr. Ajit, the youngest lad of Mr. Jagdanand, is leaving nary chromatic unturned to triumph the Ramgarh seat, bordering Uttar Pradesh. He tasted decision successful past year’s bypoll against the Bharatiya Janata Party campaigner Ashok Kumar Singh.
Mr. Ajit’s begetter has represented this spot six times since 1985 until helium became an MP from Buxar successful 2009. An technologist with a grade from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, helium present runs a backstage schoolhouse successful Ramgarh.
The person expressed assurance astir winning the spot asserting that this predetermination is antithetic from bypoll and helium has changed his attack and strategy. “Past remains past and everyone learns and works to go better. I person done the same. Earlier, I ne'er gave value to societal media and remained reluctant. Now, I person understood that for visibility, 1 has to instrumentality assistance of societal media to scope your voters,” helium said portion campaigning successful Durgawati Bazar successful Ramgarh.
Once a Naxal-affected area, Ramgarh has cultivation lands and industries. Rajput voters comprise the largest artifact astatine 21% and the different castes that find the destiny of the campaigner see Dalits, Yadavs and Muslims.
Despite his father’s legacy, Mr. Ajit said that helium is not a merchandise of dynasty authorities and noted that erstwhile his begetter vacated the seat, it was fixed to a enactment idiosyncratic twice.
“I person been moving successful Ramgarh for much than 15 years. There was a clip erstwhile I campaigned against my member portion holding the emblem of different enactment and those radical are present contesting against me,” helium said.
Ramesh Ram, a shopkeeper astatine Durgawati Bazar, said the sitting MLA, Mr. Ashok Kumar, hardly visits the area, but the caller campaigner looks promising.
