Nityanand Rai arrives at Bihar's Patna after being appointed MoS Home Affairs
Jun 20, 2024
Patna (Bihar) [India], June 20 : Bharatiya Janata Party's Nityanand Rai arrived at Patna for the first time on Thursday after being appointed as the Minister of State for Home Affairs.
"...I am grateful for the blessings of the people. In the (Bihar Assembly) election of 2025, we will end corrupt and nepotist leaders like Tejashwi Yadav. Mahagathbandhan will get zero seats in 2025...," Rai said speaking to reporters.
Rai defeated Rashtriya Janata Dal's Alok Kumar Mehta by a margin of 60102 votes in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from Ujiarpur.
Notably, Nityanand Rai has been securing victory in the constituency for the past two Lok Sabha elections. Alok Kumar Mehta, former State Minister of Revenue and Land Reforms and Education was elected to the Lok Sabha from this seat in 2004 but was defeated by Rai in 2014.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Nityanand Rai won the seat with a margin of 2,77,278 votes. Rai secured 5,43,906 votes with a vote share of 56 per cent and defeated Upendra Kushwaha from Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (BLSP) who garnered 2,66,628 votes (27.49 per cent).
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections also, Nityanand Rai secured 3,17,352 votes with a vote share of 36.95 per cent. RJD candidate Alok Kumar Mehta got 2,56,883 votes (29.91 per cent) and was the runner-up. Rai defeated Mehta by a margin of 60,469 votes.
While the Janata Dal (United) won 12 seats, Bharatiya Janata Party won 12 seats, Lok Janshakti Party(Ram Vilas) got five and the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) got one seat.
On the other hand, from the INDIA bloc, the Rashtriya Janata Dal got four, Congress won three, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) won two seats.
