Khagaria Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 40 parliamentary constituencies in Bihar and will go to polls in the third phase of the general elections on April 23. Khagaria parliamentary constituency is made of six assembly constituencies drawn from three districts - Saharsa, Samastipur and Khagaria.
The sitting MP of Khagaria is Mehboob Ali Kaiser of the LJP. He has again been nominated by the LJP and is one of the two Muslim candidates that the BJP-JD(U)-LJP alliance has fielded in the state. He had won the seat by defeating Krishna Yadav of the RJD in 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
While the LJP has retained Mehboob Ali, the opposition Bihar Gathbandhan has fielded Mukesh Sahni of the newly-formed Vikasshil Insan Party (VIP).
The seat was won by RJD's Rabindra Kumar Rana in 2004 who lost it to JD(U)'s Dinesh Chandra Yadav in 2009.
Besides two main rives of NDA and Mahagathbandhan, there are 18 more candidates in the poll fray in Khagaria.
The Khagaria Lok Sabha constituency is made up of six Assembly constituencies - Simri Bakhtiarpur (Saharsa distrcit), Hasanpur (Samastipur district) and Khagaria, Beldaur, Parbatta in Khagaria district.
While Janata Dal (United) is part of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which comprises of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), the Bihar Mahagathbandhan comprises Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Congress, Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP), Hindustan Awam Morcha (HAM) and Vikasshil Insan Party (VIP).
The Congress got nine constituencies as per the seat-sharing arrangements, while the RJD has 20 out of which it has forgone Ara in favour of the CPI(ML), which has returned the favour by announcing that the ultra-Left outfit would not field its candidate from Pataliputra, which would be contested by Lalu Prasad's eldest daughter Misa Bharti.
Besides, Upendra Kushwaha's RLSP is contesting five seats and Jitan Ram Manjhis HAM is fighting three. The VIP, founded and headed by Bollywood set designer-turned-politician Mukesh Sahni, has got three seats out of the 40 in Bihar.
The polling on this seat will be held in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 23. Five constituencies of Bihar's 40 Lok Sabha seats - Jhanjharpur, Supaul, Araria, Madhepura and Khagaria - will go to polls in the third phase. A total of 82 candidates are in fray in the five constituencies that would go to polls.
The results of the Lok Sabha election 2019 will be declared on May 23.
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