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Contesting Candidates for  Bachhwara  Assembly constituency Assembly Elections 2025     Party Candidate Votes Polled   BJP Surendra Mehata     Congress Shiv Prakash Garib Das              CPI Awadhesh Kumar Rai     Located in the Begusarai district of Bihar, Bachhwara assembly constituency is currently held by its legislator Surendra Mehata who won the seat by defeating his nearest rival Awadhesh Kumar Rai of CPI by a slender margin of 487 votes in the last assembly elections to Bihar in 2020. Awadhesh Kumar Rai has been elected from the Bachhwara assembly constituency in 2010, 1995 and 1990.   Once a stronghold of the CPI, Bachhwara had elected CPI member Ayodhya Prasad Singh in 1985. Ramdeo Rai of Congress had won t...

Voting: Thursday, 06 November , 2025 Counting: Friday, 14 November , 2025  Contesting Candidates for Aurai Assembly constituency Assembly Elections 2025     Party Candidate Votes Polled   BJP Rama Nishad     VIP Bhogendra Sahni     JSP Radha Raman     Located in the Muzaffarpur district of Bihar, Aurai is currently held by  BJP's  Ram Surat Rai who won the seat second time in the last assembly polls to Bihar in 2020.  Earlier Ram Surat Rai had won the elections to the Aurai assembly constituency in 2010. Earlier  Surendra Kumar  Yadav  of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) had won elections to the Aurai assembly seat in 2009 and 2015. In that election, while Ram Surat Rai polled 38422 votes, his nearest rival, Surendra Kumar of the Ra...

 Contesting Candidates for Amnour  Assembly constituency Assembly Elections 2025     Party Candidate Votes Polled                           Amnour One of the ten assembly constituencies located in the Saran district of Bihar, Amnouris currently held by the BJP whose candidate Krishna Kumar Mantoo won the seat by defeating his nearest RJD rival Sunil Kumar by a margin of 3681 votes.   Amnour is one of the six assembly constituencies that combine to form the parliamentary constituency of Saran which is currently represented by BJP Union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy who won the seat for the third time in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections by trouncing RJD’s Rohini Acharya by a margin of 13,661 votes.   Other five assembly constituenc...

Contesting Candidates for  Alinagar  Assembly constituency Assembly Elections 2025       Party Candidate Votes Polled   BJP Maithili Thakur     RJD Bindo Mishra     JSP Biplaw Chaudhary     One of the ten assembly constituencies located in the Darbhanga district of Bihar, Alinagar is currently held by VIP’s Mishri Lal Yadav who had had won it in the last assembly polls to Bihar in 2020 by defeating his nearest rival Binod Mishra Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). Abdul Bari Siddiqui of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) had won the seat in 2015 and 2010. Alinagar assembly constituency came into being before the general assembly polls in 2010 following the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission. Alinagar is one of the six assembly constituencies that combine to form the parliamentary constituency of Darbhanga which is currently represented by BJP’s   Gopal Jee Thakur who won the seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections....

Contesting Candidates for Alamnagar Assembly constituency Assembly Elections 2025     Party Candidate Votes Polled   JD(U)  Narendra Narayan Yadav       VIP Naveen Nishad     JSP Subodh Kumar Suman                     One of the four assembly constituencies located in the Madhepura district of Bihar, Alamnagar had elected Narendra Narayan Yadav of the Janata Dal (united) in the last general assembly elections to Bihar in 2020.  Narendra Narayan Yadav, who has been representing the seat since 1995, is currently the Deputy Speaker of Bihar Legislative Assembly. Alamnagar is one of the six assembly constituencies that combine to form the parliamentary constituency of Madhepura which is currently represented by Dinesh Chandra Yadav of JD(U).  Other five assembly constituencies that fall under the Madhepura Lok Sabha seat are Bihariganj, Madhepura, Sonbarsha, Saharsa and Mahishi....

Kabir Chabutra / Image Credit  Seven km away from Amarkantak (in Madhya Pradesh) is Kabir Chabutra (Kabir's Corridor) which is a place of pilgrimage for the Kabir - panthis (followers of the medieval saint poet Kabir). Kabir had spent a considerable period of time in the place while he was on his way to preach the gospel of love and unity among the different sections of the society.   He is said to have meditated at Kabir Chabutra.   Early Life  Nothing much can be said with certainty about the life of Kabir. Differences still persist among scholars about his date of birth. He lived either towards the close of the fourteenth century or in the first quarter of the fifteenth century.    Kabir's name is from the Koran (sacred book of Islam) and he was born in Banaras. A legend says that he was an illegitimate child of a brahmana widow. From fear of being exposed to odium and ridicule of the society she left him on the side of a tank in Banaras. Here ...

Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh / Image Credit In his poem, Cloud-messenger ( Meghaduta ), Kalidasa ,  the greatest of India’s dramatists and poets,  describes the lands, sights, rivers and cities over which the messenger has to pass. Amarkantak (in the Anuppur district of Madhya Prades) finds mentions as a part of his description of the topography.  Meghdoot which is one of the most popular of Sanskrit poems and whose theme has been imitated in one form or another by several later poets in both Sanskrit and the vernaculars, describes a yaksha (earth -spirit, a sort of  gnome or fairy) who lives in the divine city of Alaka , near Mount Kailasa in the Himalayas. He had been banished for a year to the hill of Ramagiri (in Madhya Pradesh) for offending his master, Kubera ( Dikpala ( guardian) of the northern quarter, lord of the precious metals, minerals jewels and wealth). Separation from his beautiful wife, whom he has left behind in the beautiful jewelled city of Alaka, ...