Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad's elder son Tej Pratap Yadav will contest the Bihar elections from Mahua. His newly floated party, Janshakti Janta Dal (JJD), announced candidates for 21 seats.

Yadav, a former minister in the state government, floated the party after his father expelled him from the RJD for six years in May.

Yadav had represented the Mahua seat till 2020 when RJD shifted him to Hasanpur.

Mukesh Kumar Raushan from the RJD is the sitting MLA from the Mahua seat. In the 2020 elections, 172,026 voters exercised their franchise, comprising 60.04% of the total electorate in the constituency.

In 2015, RJD candidate Tej Pratap Yadav won from the seat.

For years, JD(U) held this seat without serious competition. However, in 2015, RJD broke through with a surprise win, ma

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