Araria 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. Araria parliamentary constituency is part of Araria district of Bihar.
The sitting MP of Araria is RJD's Sarfaraz Alam who won the Lok Sabha seat in 2018 by-election which eas necessitated after the death of his father Tasleemuddin. Both Sarfaraz Alam and Tasleemuddin defeated Pradeep Kumar Singh of the BJP with a vote margin of 1.46 lakh and 61,000 respectively.
Singh had first won the seat in 2009 when he defeated Zakir Hussain Khan of the LJP. The seat was reserved for SC candidates before 2008 delimitation of parliamentary constituencies.
In 2019 Lok Sabha election, Pradeep Singh of the BJP will again face Sarfaraz Alam of the RJD which has entered into an alliance with the Congress and other smaller parties. There are 10 more candidates in the poll fray.
The Araria Lok Sabha constituency is made up of six Assembly constituencies - Narpatganj, Raniganj (SC), Forbesganj, Araria, Jokhihat and Sikti.
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 the 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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