The last stage of the Lok Sabha Elections 2004 is today completed. An independent candidate, Rajesh Ranjan, who is quite famous as Pappu Yadav, is lagging behind in the Purnea Lok Sabha seat of Bihar.
The latest reports state that, as of 3 PM, Pappu Yadav is trailing behind Janata Dal (United) candidate Santosh Kumar, who has a lead of 12,460 votes.
Yadav, who is running for the seat as an independent candidate, was given the symbol “scissor” for the election. The candidate fought from this area during the 1990s, when he was an independent and later a Samajwadi Party member famous for his landslide victory. It appears that the student union has put up a stiff challenge this time around.
The Purnea Lok Sabha has over 22 lakh electorate, and the polls on that seat were conducted on April 26 in the second phase of the Parliamentary elections.
Ranjeet Ranjan, Yadav’s wife, is a Rajya Sabha member of the Congress party. Yadav lost in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections to the 755,853 votes of his wife, who contested as an independent from Madhepura. She also lost in Supaul to the 588,129 votes of her husband, who was the Congress nominee. Ranjeet Ranjan, representing RJD / INC, won from this constituency in 2014.
Congress has fielded 9 candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls and Bihar is one of the 40 Parliamentary seats in the country.
Pappu Yadav was affiliated with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) but broke away from it in 2015, after which he formed the Jan Adhikar Party (JAP) that he joined the Congress party on March 20 of this year.
However, his appeal to the CM for a “friendly war” with the RJD, a major partner in the state’s government, did not go down too well with the Cong leadership, even though his intentions were to ” wag the battle to make Rahul Gandhi the PM.”
While the vote counting goes on, those who follow the political contexts will turn their attention to Pappu Yadav, the literal political independent candidate, in the battleground of the Purnea Lok Sabha seat.
