Sandeep Saurav’s vote tally is double that of the JDU candidate and incumbent MLA
Paliganj, Bihar:
Among the many stars of the CPI(ML)’s finest ever present in Bihar elections in over three a long time is Sandeep Saurav, a 33-year-old who fought his first ever meeting election from Paliganj close to Patna – and gained.
Mr Saurav’s vote tally within the election is double that of the Janata Dal United candidate and the incumbent MLA.
This has been an excellent election for the Left events in Bihar. Of the 29 seats contested by the Left events – CPI, CPM and CPI(ML) – as a part of the Tejashwi Yadav-led Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance), they gained 16 seat – a hit fee of 55 per cent.
The CPI(ML) gained 12 of 19 contested seats, a hit fee of 63 per cent. In distinction, the bigger get together within the Grand Alliance, Congress, gained solely 19 in 70 seats that it contested, which is a hit fee of 27 per despatched.
Within the final Bihar meeting election in 2015, the Left’s mixed tally was simply three seats.
“I began with pupil politics and am nonetheless a part of pupil politics. I feel folks understood my imaginative and prescient about schooling and politics,” says Sandeep Saurav at his dwelling in Maner city close to Patna, surrounded by a handful of supporters.
“We used to begin at 6 am and maintain small village-level conferences. There may be not a single village in Paliganj that I didn’t contact. We created zones and held conferences with younger folks. The CPI(ML) had three seats final time. We’ve had zero seats too. However we now have at all times had public assist in Bihar,” the newly-elected MLA mentioned.
One other star performer for the Left events is CPI(ML)’s Manoj Manzil, the son of brick kiln staff. He’s now the MLA from Agiaon in Bihar’s Arrah district after polling 50,000 extra votes than his closest rival from the JD(U).
Within the 2015 meeting election in Paliganj’s Baali Pakar village, which has a big inhabitants of the extraordinarily backward Mushahar caste, votes have been break up nearly evenly between the BJP and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidates on the seat, and BJP MLA was voted to energy then.
However this yr, of the 1,420 votes polled there, 866 have been for the CPI(ML) candidate, 297 for the JD(U) whereas a Lok Janshakti Occasion candidate acquired some 200 votes.
“We weren’t proud of Nitish ji. All we acquired is a few Rs 400-Rs 500 in our financial institution accounts. Nothing else. So we gave our vote to a brand new individual and we at the moment are hoping he’ll do what he has promised. I hope he’ll assist us with employment,” says Munia Devi, a homemaker, when requested why she voted for the Left.
Mukul Kumar, a 21-year-old first-time voter who had been pursuing BTech in Punjab earlier than the lockdown, has a extra exhaustive rationalization. “Jai Vardhan Yadav (incumbent MLA) was with the RJD. He’s now with the JDU. For 5 years I by no means noticed his face. He by no means got here in 5 years. This new MLA, he gained on Tuesday and got here to fulfill us on Wednesday. He additionally spoke within the marketing campaign about employment. (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi and Yogi (Adityanath) additionally got here right here. They stored on talking about China and the Ram temple,” says Mr Kumar.