Kishanganj hit the headlines along with other neighbouring districts namely Araria, Purnia and Katihar for totally discarding NaMo wave. Maulana Asrarul Haque Qasmi won the elections for second consecutive term by defeating BJP's candidate Dr. Dilip Kumar Jaiswal by a margin of 1,94,602 votes. In fact, the sitting Congress MP Maulana Asrarul Haque Qasmi has made a record of getting maximum number of votes in the state of Bihar. Maulana Qasmi got 4,93, 461 votes, which is highest for any winning candidate in the state.
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| Maulana Asrarul Haque |
The Congress candidate from Kishanganj received record number of votes thanks to the last time exit of Janata Dal (United) candidate Akhtarul Imaan, who claimed that in order to defeat the communal forces he had taken the decision. Although Akhtarul Imaan left the battle but interestingly he got a total of 55822 votes. The political analysts are sighting the exit of Akhtarul Imaan as the reason behind Maulana's record win.
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| Kishanganj Results |
In the list of getting highest number of votes Maulana Qasmi is followed by 'Bihar Babu' Shahtrughan Sinha, who has secured 485905 from Patna Sahab constituency. Other top achievers are Janak Ram (478773 BJP from Gopalganj constituency), Ajay Nishad (469295, BJP from Muzaffarpur constituency), Ram Vilas Paswan (455652, LJP from Hajipur constituency) and Tarique Anwar (431172, NCP from Katihar constituency)
