Arrah, Oct 27 (PTI) A full-time activist of the CPI(ML) Liberation with declared assets of Rs 37,000 in his election affidavit, Quyamuddin Ansari is in the fray against BJP's sitting MLA Amarendra Pratap Singh in Arrah, one of the two seats with the NDA in the Shahabad region of Bihar.

Ansari, who comes from the backward Pasmanda Muslim community and lost the seat to Singh in the 2020 assembly polls by a margin of around 3,000 votes, says he is fighting the election with small donations from supporters, but is confident of defeating "money power".

"Candidates in other parties have to pay money to fight elections. But here, people are supporting my campaign," Ansari told PTI in an interview.

The 50-year-old CPI(ML) leader joined politics during his student days and has been an activist e

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