RJD wins Jokihat seat in bypoll

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Patna : The RJD on May 31, 2018, wrested the Jokihat assembly seat in Araria district from the ruling JD(U) in a bypoll. RJD candidate Shahnawaz Alam defeated Murshid Alam of JD(U) by over 41,000 votes in the bypoll to the seat, according Election Commission sources.

The JD(U) had won the Jokihat seat in  2015 Bihar Assembly elections.The Jokihat bypoll defeat is clearly a setback to Bihar CM Kumar as the JD(U) had earlier registered three consecutive wins from Jokihat. 

By-election to the assembly seat was necessitated by the resignation of sitting MLA Sarfaraz Alam, elder brother of the RJD candidate, in March this year, who went on to win the by-poll to Araria Lok Sabha seat on RJD ticket recently. Death of their father Mohammad Taslimuddin, a former Union Minister and RJD MP from Araria, had necessitated the bypoll to Araria Lok Sabha seat.