Alinagar Election Results 2025: Folk singer Maithili Thakur secures BJP victory with 11,730-vote margin on her electoral debut

Alinagar Election Results 2025: Alinagar Election Results: Making her first entry into politics, 25-year-old BJP candidate Maithili Thakur has won the Alinagar Assembly seat in Bihar. She secured 84,915 votes, defeating RJD’s Binod Mishra, who got 73,185 votes, by a margin of 11,730 votes.

Alinagar, a key constituency in Darbhanga, has seen close fights in the past. The seat was a stronghold of RJD veteran Abdul Bari Siddiqui, who won seven times before retiring in 2015. In 2020, Mishri Lal Yadav of the Vikassheel Insaan Party, a former RJD member who joined the NDA, won by just over 3,000 votes.

This time, the spotlight was on folk singer and BJP cultural ambassador Maithili Thakur, who faced a direct contest with Binod Mishra, the 2020 runner-up, and Biplaw Kumar Choudhary of the Jan Suraaj Party.

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Other candidates, including Independent Saifuddin Ahmed (2,803 votes) and Biplaw Kumar Choudhary (2,275 votes), trailed far behind. Thakur’s win shows a shift in Alinagar, strengthening BJP’s position in Darbhanga.

Bihar Election Results 2025: NDA's sweeping victory

The National Democratic Alliance secured a resounding victory in the Bihar Assembly elections on Friday, winning 202 of the 243 seats, according to Election Commission data. The opposition Mahagathbandhan managed only 35 seats.

Within the NDA, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) claimed 85 seats, nearly doubling its tally from 43 in the 2020 polls. The Bharatiya Janata Party emerged as the single largest party with 89 seats out of the 101 constituencies it contested, while the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) won 19 seats.

From the opposition alliance, Rashtriya Janata Dal secured 25 seats, the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation won 2, and the Congress managed 6 seats. In the 243-member Assembly, a party or alliance needs at least 122 seats to form the government.