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Several petitions person been filed successful Patna High Court challenging the elections of implicit 40 elected members of the State Assembly, including Speaker Prem Kumar, Energy and Finance Minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav and others. The tribunal has issued notices to the responsive legislators.
The petitions person been filed by the candidates who mislaid the predetermination from their respective constituencies, and the court, successful the accustomed course, has issued notices to the elected representatives from some ruling and Opposition parties, but the bulk among them beryllium to the ruling NDA confederation parties.
“Usually, nary predetermination petition is dismissed by the tribunal outright. Notices are issued to the respondents, and orders would beryllium passed by the tribunal aft examining the worldly astatine hand”, said Siddharth Prasad, who represents the Election Commission successful the court. The petitions, said to beryllium implicit 40, person been filed by the candidates who person mislaid elections from their respective constituencies, said Mr. Prasad to media persons.
The petitions challenging the elections of recently elected MLAs, including the Speaker of the State Assembly and nine-term BJP MLA from Gaya town, Prem Kumar, elder Minister successful Nitish Kumar's cabinet, Bijendra Prasad Yadav of JD-U, erstwhile Minister Jibesh Kumar Mishra of BJP, Chetan Anand (JD-U) and others. The petition against Prem Kumar has been filed by Akhauri Onkar Nath who had contested the predetermination arsenic Congress campaigner and mislaid by 26, 423 votes.
Similarly, the tribunal has issued announcement to elder JD-U person and nine-term MLA from Supaul, Bijendra Prasad Yadav, who is besides the State’s Energy and Finance minister. Mr. Yadav had defeated Congress campaigner Minnatullah Rahmani by implicit 30,000 votes.
The BJP campaigner from Jale constituency successful Darbhanga territory and erstwhile Minister successful Nitish Kumar's cabinet, Jibesh Mishra, excessively had defeated Congress campaigner Rishi Mishra by implicit 20,000 votes. But, the ruling JD-U campaigner from Nabinagar constituency of Aurangabad district, Chetan Anand, had won the canvass by conscionable 112 votes, defeating the Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal campaigner Amod Kumar Singh.
Most of the predetermination petitions person been filed successful the tribunal citing alleged discrepancies successful affidavits filed by the winning candidates acrophobic or, for usurpation of different provisions of the Representation of the People Act, said the EC counsel Siddharth Prasad. The petitions person besides been challenged against RJD MLA from Goh constituency of Aurangabad, Amarendra Kumar and others too. The tribunal has directed the MLAs to respond wrong the stipulated timeframe for further proceedings to instrumentality place.
However, immoderate of Patna HC lawyers told The Hindu that “issuance of notices does not connote guilt but, yes, it marks that the tribunal has recovered capable grounds to question clarification from the respondents”. “Election petitions are a law remedy disposable to candidates who privation to situation results connected grounds of discrepancies similar procedural lapses, mendacious declarations, corrupt practices etc.”, said elder advocator of the court, Amit Prakash.
In the 2025 two-phased State Assembly elections successful Bihar, the NDA comprising the BJP, JD-U, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular), and Rashtriya Lok Morcha had won 202 seats retired of a full of 243-member State Assembly, the Opposition mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) allies RJD had won 25, Congress 6, Left parties 3 seats and the remainder are by others.
