RJD smells blood as BJP bets on new face in Buxar bastion
Hindustan TimesBuxar is barely 125 kilometres from Varanasi, the constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} The sitting MP, Union minister Ashwini Choubey, who also won the Buxar Lok Sabha seat in 2014, was passed over by the BJP this time in favour of Tiwari, a former MLA from Baikunthpur in Gopalganj district. This time, Jagdanand Singh’s son and former Bihar agriculture minister Sudhakar Singh is contesting on RJD ticket as the INDIA bloc nominee. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} RJD leader and Rajya Sabha MP Manoj Jha, who was also in Buxar to campaign for Sudhakar, said “BJP’s unfounded optimism would come hollow in Bihar and Buxar will show how the bastion crumbles”. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} All six Assembly segments in Buxar parliamentary constituency are with the parties of the opposition bloc — three with RJD, two with Congress and one with CPI-ML.
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