Tejashwi Yadav and Priyanka Gandhi
Bihar Chunav 2025: On Bihar Assembly Elections 2025, political parties are making a lot of emphasis to attract voters to their respective. The Congress involved in the Grand Alliance is also engaged in making its election strategy. Meanwhile the party’s national general secretary and MP from Wayanad in Kerala Priyanka Gandhi Has selected Motihari Assembly seat of East Champaran for his first rally i.e. public meeting. This seat is currently a stronghold of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in which the Congress is making a strategy to make a dent.
If we talk about East Champaran district, then there are 12 assembly seats under this district, including Raxaul, Sugauli, Narkatia, Harsiddhi (SC), Govindganj, Kesariya, Kalyanpur, Pipra, Madhuban, Motihari, Chiraiya and Dhaka. Priyanka Gandhi will arrive in Motihari constituency on 26 September in one of these seats, where she will address her first election public meeting at Gandhi Maidan in the city at around 1 pm. For this, the District Congress is busy preparing. The workers have been instructed to attend the rally in large numbers. The party wants to show through this public meeting that since Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra, the enthusiasm of the workers is high.
Why did Priyanka Gandhi choose Motihari?
In the last assembly election, Motihari assembly seat went to RJD’s account under the seat sharing formula of the Grand Alliance. This is the same area where RJD and Congress workers clashed before Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra. This controversy was about pasting posters of Rahul Gandhi’s visit. The matter increased so much that the Congress had lodged an FIR against RJD workers.
Congress district president Gappu Rai of East Champaran had put up posters at 54 places before Rahul’s Voter Adhikar Yatra arrived in Motihari on August 28, after which RJD workers got angry. He had tore posters at Gandhi Chowk in the city and replaced RJD posters and banners. Congress workers alleged that RJD workers threatened to kill him. FIR was lodged on the basis of these allegations.
Priyanka’s pressure politics?
Now Priyanka Gandhi is going to fill the shout from Motihari seat with this RJD. However, the seat sharing formula has not been agreed in the Grand Alliance so far. In such a situation, the question arises whether Priyanka Gandhi is giving air to the pressure politics through this rally, so that a message can be given to the RJD camp.
The Congress is demanding 70 seats under seat sharing formula in the state, while RJD is adamant on giving less seats. In the last assembly election too, the Congress contested only 70 seats and won 19 seats. However, there were 8 seats on which he was defeated by less than 5 thousand votes. This time after the visit of Rahul Gandhi, the Congress wants him to offer seats where it can win it easily. This is the reason why Priyanka wants to cultivate Motihari because the difference of defeat in the last election has reduced here.
Motihari seat BJP stronghold
The Congress last contested the 2010 assembly elections in Motihari assembly seat. According to the Election Commission, the Congress made Arvind Kumar Gupta its candidate from here. From this seat, BJP gave ticket to Pramod Kumar and RJD to Rajesh Gupta alias Bablu Gupta. BJP got 51 thousand 888 votes and RJD got 27 thousand 358 votes, while Congress’s Arvind Gupta had only 7723 votes. The BJP defeated RJD by a margin of 24530 votes. The Congress was at number four, while at number three was Independent candidate Suresh Saini, who got 9764 votes.
In the 2015 assembly elections, Pramod Kumar of BJP got 79,947, while Vinod Kumar Srivastava of RJD got 61,430 votes. The Congress supported RJD. The BJP defeated RJD by 18,517 votes.
In the last assembly election 2020, the BJP again expressed confidence and fielded its veteran leader Pramod Kumar. At the same time, under the vote sharing formula of the Grand Alliance, this seat went to RJD’s account. He had expressed confidence in Om Prakash Chaudhary, but had to face defeat. BJP’s Pramod Kumar got 92,733 votes and RJD’s Om Prakash got 78,088 votes. The BJP defeated him by a margin of 14,645 votes. This difference was reduced compared to 2015.
