Gaya Town Assembly constituency is set to undergo polling in the second phase of the Bihar Assembly elections, with Bihar Co-operative Department Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) sitting MLA, Prem Kumar, looking to defend his seat.

Veteran BJP leader Prem Kumar, who has been the sitting MLA from Gaya Town since 1990, is again going up against Congress’ Akhaury Onkar Nath after a contest between the two in 2020.

Prem Kumar, an Extremely Backward Caste leader, has had a strong hold over the seat. In the 2020 Bihar Assembly polls, he won by a margin of 9 per cent, gaining 66,962 votes out of the total 2,69,781 votes cast. Akhaury Onkar Nath had won 55,034 votes in the last polls.

In the 2015 and 2010 elections, Kumar won with margins of 17.7 per cent and 27.5 per cent, respectiv

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