Mokama Assembly seat drew attention recently after the murder of Jan Suraaj Party's (JSP's) member Dular Singh Yadav. As per the latest trends, Janata Dal United (JDU) candidate Anant Kumar Singh, who was arrested on November 2 in connection with Yadav's murder, has consolidated his lead from the Mokama seat. After 22 rounds of counting, Singh is leading by 22,998 votes.

So far, the JDU candidate has received 82,787 votes, while 59,799 votes have been polled to his nearest rival, the Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD's) Veena Devi.

Singh was arrested along with two associates, Manikant Thakur and Ranjeet Ram. Mokama is infamous for being a stronghold of influential and often controversial "strongmen" or "bahubalis" in Bihar politics, most notably Anant Kumar Singh, his brother Dilip Singh and

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