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Emerging as a elephantine slayer, 25-year-old Maithili Thakur, connected Friday (November 14, 2025) has taken a pb by 8,544 votes over her hostile – Binod Mishra, an RJD heavyweight, arsenic per the latest trends astatine 12 noon.
Ms. Thakur, who turned 25 connected July 25 this year, volition beryllium the youngest typical to beryllium elected to the Bihar Assembly.
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The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has taken a sizable pb implicit the Opposition bloc – Mahagathabandhan (MGB) in 188 seats.
Other 25-year-olds in the fray see Sonu Kumar from Goh, Naveen Kumar and Amrita Soni from Batnaha, Kundan Kumar from Sheikhpura, Shambhu Babu from Supaul and Rajkumar Sada from Simri Bakhtiarpur.
The mean property of candidates successful the two-phased Bihar elections is said to beryllium astir 51 years.
Apart from being the youngest in this assembly, Ms. Thakur’s predetermination volition besides people the archetypal clip BJP has won Alinagar – a Darbhanga spot with a important Muslim population. Previously, Bihar youngest MLA was autarkic campaigner 26-year-old Tauseef Alam successful 2005, followed by RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav who was elected from Raghopur astatine 26 years successful 2015.
From world amusement to Legislative Assembly
Hailing from Benipatti in neighbouring Madhubani district, Ms. Thakur, who is trained in Indian classical and devotional music, archetypal changeable to nationalist fame when she featured successful TV shows specified arsenic ‘Rising Star’ and her folk performances fused with Sufi rendered in 12 antithetic languages crossed the world.
Her governmental run saw the engagement of her full family. One of her younger brothers, Rishav Thakur, who plays the tabla and the youngest sibling - Ayachi Thakur accompanied her successful singing people songs. Their maternal uncles, Nand Kishore Jha and Sumit Jha, were besides coordinating logistics. If elected, she has said she would present Mithila coating arsenic extra-curricular activities successful school, rename Alinagar as Sitanagar, bash thing amended for education, particularly for miss children, and employment for jobless youths.
Falling under Darbhanga area, Alinagar is a premix of upper-caste Brahmin denizens, a sizable Muslim population along with Yadavs, and Extremely Backward Classes specified as Mallahs and Paswans. Alinagar was an MGB stronghold since 2008 with RJD’s Abdul Bari Siddiqui winning it doubly (2010 and 2015) and VIP’s Mishri Lal Yadav winning it successful 2020. As BJP dropped Mr. Mishra, who was sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment successful a 2019 transgression lawsuit by the MP-MLA tribunal successful Darbhanga, helium resigned from BJP.
