2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election
12 to 22 February 2000
All 324 seats of the Bihar Legislative Assembly
163 seats needed for a majority
Turnout62.57%
 Majority partyMinority party
 
LeaderRabri DeviSushil Modi
PartyRJDBJP
AllianceRJD-CPI(M)NDA
Leader since19971997
Leader's seatRaghopur (by-election)Patna Central
Seats beforeNew41
Seats won12467
Seat changeNewIncrease 26
Popular vote10,500,3615,424,687
Percentage28.34%14.64%
SwingNewIncrease 1.68%
 Third partyFourth party
 
LeaderNitish KumarShakeel Ahmad
PartySAPINC
AllianceNDA
Leader since19942000
Leader's seatDid not contestBisfi
Seats before729
Seats won3423
Seat changeIncrease 27Decrease 6
Popular vote3,205,7464,096,467
Percentage8.65%11.06%
SwingIncrease 1.59%Decrease 5.21%
CM before election

Rabri Devi
RJD

Elected CM

Nitish Kumar
Samata Party

Legislative Assembly elections were held in February 2000, to elect the 324 members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. The Rashtriya Janata Dal won the most seats, but a short-lived government was formed by an alliance that included the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Samata Party. The voter turnout in the 2000 assembly polls was 62.6%.[1][2][3]

Background

Between 1990 and 2000, Bihar's per capita income, according to a World Bank estimate, fell from ₹ 1,373 to ₹ 1,289. Power consumption in Bihar went down from 84 KWH to 60 KWH and it registered the lowest number of Internet users among Indian states. As per a Business Today -Gallup survey in December 1999, Bihar was the worst state in India for investment.[4]

In 1999 Lok Sabha elections Rashtriya Janata Dal received a setback at the hand of BJP+JD(U) combine. The new coalition emerged leading in 199 out of 324 assembly constituencies and it was widely believed that in the forthcoming election to Bihar state assembly elections, the Lalu-Rabri rule will come to an end. The RJD had fought the election in an alliance with the Congress but the coalition didn't work making state leadership of Congress believe that the maligned image of Lalu Prasad after his name was drawn in the Fodder Scam had eroded his support base. Consequently, Congress decided to fight the 2000 assembly elections alone.[5]

The RJD had to be satisfied with the communist parties as coalition partners but the seat-sharing conundrum in the camp of National Democratic Alliance made Kumar pull his Samta Party out of the Sharad Yadav and Ram Vilas Paswan faction of the Janata Dal. Differences also arose between the BJP and Kumar as the latter wanted to be projected as the Chief Minister of Bihar but the former was not in favour. Even Paswan also wanted to be a CM face. The Muslims and OBCs were too divided in their opinion. A section of Muslims, which included the poor communities like Pasmanda were of the view that Lalu only strengthened upper Muslims like Shaikh, Sayyid and Pathans and they were in search of new options.[5]

Yadav also alienated other dominant backward castes like Koeri and Kurmi since his projection as the saviour of Muslims. It is argued by Sanjay Kumar that the belief that, "the dominant OBCs like the twin caste of Koeri-Kurmi will ask for share in power if he (Yadav) seeks their support while the Muslims will remain satisfied with the protection during communal riots only" made Yadav neglect them. Moreover, the divisions in both the camps made the political atmosphere in the state a charged one in which many parties were fighting against each other with no visible frontiers. JD(U) and BJP were fighting against each other on some of the seats and so was the Samta Party.[5]

Results

PartyVotes%Seats
Rashtriya Janata Dal10,500,36128.34124
Bharatiya Janata Party5,424,68714.6467
Samata Party3,205,7468.6534
Indian National Congress4,096,46711.0623
Janata Dal (United)2,396,6776.4721
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha1,306,1523.5312
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation925,2532.506
Bahujan Samaj Party701,9361.895
Communist Party of India1,334,3863.605
Communist Party of India (Marxist)338,1980.912
United Goans Democratic Party96,2970.262
Kosal Party132,8350.362
Marxist Co-ordination Committee104,4500.281
Others2,274,1346.140
Independent (politician)4,211,34111.3720
Total37,048,920100.00324
Valid votes37,048,92098.60
Invalid/blank votes527,1411.40
Total votes37,576,061100.00
Registered voters/turnout60,091,02962.53
Source: ECI[3]

Elected members

ConstituencyWinnerRunner UpMargin
#NameCandidatePartyVotesCandidatePartyVotes
1DhanahaRajesh SinghBSP15034Arun Kumar TiwariInd112873747
2Bagaha (SC)Purnmasi RamRJD58668Kailash BaithaInd3919119477
3RamnagarChandra Mohan RaiBJP44454Mohammad SalauddinNCP2533219122
4Shikarpur (SC)Bhagirathi DeviBJP35377Subodh KumarNCP2206913308
5SiktaDilip VarmaBJP50592Motiur RahmanCPIMLL2414726445
6LauriyaVishwa Mohan SharmaINC41016Ran Vijay ShahiRJD2552015496
7ChanpatiaKrishna Kumar MishraBJP22617Sharfuddin SheikhSJP210581559
8BettiahRenu DeviBJP44897Shamim AkhtarInd3405610841
9NautanBaidyanath Prasad MahtoSAP39584Amar YadavInd1586423720
10RaxaulAjay Kumar SinghBJP41983Sagir AhmadINC2903212951
11SugauliVijay Prasad GuptaKP39499Ramashray SinghCPM38993506
12MotihariRama DeviRJD78657Pramod KumarBJP4409034567
13AdapurVirendra Prasad KushwahaIND44227Shyam Bihari PrasadRJD43960267
14DhakaManoj Kumar SinghRJD59948Avaneesh Kumar SinghBJP538516097
15GhorasahanLaxmi Narayan YadavJDU39668Lal Babu PrasadRJD1863721031
16MadhubanSitaram SinghRJD64285Rajesh Kumar RoshanSAP4347620809
17Pipra (SC)Surendra Kumar ChandraRJD34469Krishnanandan PaswanInd2370210767
18KesariaObaidullahSAP46743Yamuna YadavKP1742429319
19HarsidhiMaheshwar SinghSAP60363Awadhesh KushwahaRJD4764512718
20GovindganjRajan TiwariIND31702Bhupendra Nath DubeySAP284393263
21KateyaKiran DeviRJD50704Mandev TiwariBJP3354817156
22Bhore (SC)Acharya Vishwanath BaithaBJP59230Alagu RamRJD2685732373
23MirganjPrabhu Dayal SinghSAP49084Abdul SamadInd2459624488
24GopalganjSadhu YadavRJD30248Subhash SinghBPP1937210876
25BarauliRampravesh RaiBJP52085Md. NematullahRJD423609725
26BaikunthpurManjeet Kumar SinghSAP60891Lal Babu YadavRJD4096319928
27BasantpurSatyadeo Prasad SinghBJP67052Manik Chand RaiRJD659921060
28GoriakothiIndra Deo PrasadRJD42324Ajit Kumar SinghInd2219820126
29SiwanAwadh Bihari ChoudharyRJD107933Wasi AhmadBJP1869689237
30Mairwa (SC)Satyadeo RamCPIMLL32996Gorakh RamINC264876509
31DarauliSheo Shanker YadavRJD46047Amar Nath YadavCPIMLL3399012057
32ZiradeiAzazul HaqueRJD75920Shyam Bahadur SinghSAP3100044920
33MaharajganjUmashanker SinghSAP58671Damodar SinghInd2271535956
34RaghunathpurVijay Shanker DubeyINC34503Vikram KunwarRJD320642439
35ManjhiRavindra Nath MishraIND33725Gautam SinghSAP275836142
36BaniapurManoranjan SinghIND37926Ram Bahadur RaiRJD358372089
37MasrakhTarkeshwar SinghRJD47301Kedar Nath SinghSAP3684210459
38TaraiyaRam Das RaiRJD40680Janak SinghBJP40415265
39MarhauraYaduvanshi RaiRJD68463Surendra SharmaSAP4557322890
40JalalpurJanardan Singh SigriwalBJP27408Ramjan AliSJP258001608
41ChapraUdit RaiRJD76749Rambabu RayBJP5403022719
42Garkha (SC)Muneshwar ChoudharyRJD52530Amrit ChaudharySAP451147416
43ParsaChandrika RaiRJD74581Ram Nath BidhyarthiINC2907145510
44SonpurVinay Kumar SinghBJP72502Ramanuj Prasad YadavRJD702122290
45HajipurNityanand RaiBJP95598Rajendra RaiRJD4276252836
46RaghopurLalu Prasad YadavRJD70134Vishnudev RaiJDU4100629128
47MahnarRama Kishore SinghJDU84893Munshilal RaiRJD4434440549
48JandahaUpendra KushwahaSAP46042Achyutanand SinghInd406815361
49Patepur (SC)Prema ChaudharyRJD60572Mahendra BaithaJDU4845712115
50Mahua (SC)Dasai ChowdharyRJD60478Munshi Lal PaswanJDU514089070
51LalganjVijay ShuklaIND82406Rajkumar SahRJD2970152705
52VaishaliVeena ShahiINC52708Brishin PatelRJD4068012028
53ParooMithilesh Prasad YadavRJD55823Anunay Kumar SinghINC3052325300
54SahebganjRam Vichar RayRJD76235Nagendra Prasad SinghBPP3587240363
55BarurajShashi Kumar RaiJDU48850Brij Kishore SinghRJD3381715033
56KantiGulam Jilani WarsiRJD35023Ajit SinghAJBP2397911044
57KurhaniBasawan Prasad BhagatRJD48343Brijesh KumarBPP3279515548
58Sakra (SC)Sital RamRJD49391Bilat PaswanJDU421207271
59MuzaffarpurBijendra ChaudharyRJD86873Suresh Kumar SharmaBJP6004026833
60Bochahan (SC)Ramai RamRJD77031Musafir PaswanJDU2286354168
61GaighatVirendra Kumar SinghJDU47020Devendra Prasad YadavRJD420244996
62AuraiGanesh Prasad YadavJDU47268Arjun RoyRJD3438112887
63MinapurDinesh Prasad KushwahaIND32586Hind Keshari YadavRJD296342952
64RunnisaidpurBhola RaiRJD65501Anil Kumar SinghJDU3423931262
65BelsandRam Swarth RaiRJD34239Rana Randhir Singh ChauhanSAP2178312456
66SheoharSatya Narayan PrasadRJD43664Ajit Kumar JhaSAP386455019
67SitamarhiShahid Ali KhanRJD58740Harishankar PrasadBJP5870535
68BathnahaSuryadeo RaiRJD63218Raj Kishore Singh KushwahaSAP4861514603
69Majorganj (SC)Gauri Shankar NagdanshBJP67524Dinkar RamRJD3655230972
70SonbarsaRamchandra PurveRJD46590Md. Hira KhanINC2839618194
71SursandJainandan Prasad YadavJDU54222Nagendra Prasad YadavRJD3683417388
72PupriSita Ram YadavRJD55907Habib.A. BirariJDU548281079
73BenipattiRamashish YadavJDU37476Shaligram YadavRJD277819695
74BisfiShakil AhmadINC41889Abdul HaiRJD2929012599
75HarlakhiSitaram YadavRJD34955Ram Naresh PandeyCPI34421534
76Khajauli (SC)Ram Lakhan Ram 'Raman'RJD37206Ramprit PaswanBJP354901716
77BabubarhiDeo Narayan YadavRJD42503Brahmadeo Narain SinghSAP412221281
78MadhubaniRamdev MahatoBJP50471Raj Kumar MahsethRJD3239518076
79PandaulNaiyar AzamRJD57674Devendra Prasad SinghBPSP3557622098
80JhanjharpurJagdish Narayan ChaudharyRJD34313Nitish MishraBJC(R)2426410049
81PhulparasRam Kumar YadavJDU35984Deo Nath YadavSP299766008
82LaukahaHari Prasad SahSAP39120Chitranjan Prasad YadavRJD2408015040
83MadhepurJagat Narayan SinghRJD47513Sita Ram SinghBPSP2743120082
84ManigachhiLalit Kumar YadavRJD56310Dr. Madan Mohan JhaINC3221324097
85BaheraAbdul Bari SiddiquiRJD60395Harish Chandra JhaBJP2968230713
86GhanshyampurMahavir PrasadRJD79472Izhar AhmadJDU6303116441
87BaheriRamanand SinghJDU52648Hare Krishna YadavRJD436449004
88Darbhanga Rural (SC)Pitambar PaswanRJD59305Suneeti Ranjan DasJDU3783321472
89DarbhangaSultan AhmadRJD40462Shiv Nath VermaBJP39667795
90KeotiGhulam SarwarRJD59188Ashok Kumar YadavBJP546064582
91JaleVijay Kumar MishraBJP61897Ram Niwas PrasadRJD3128030617
92HayaghatUmadhar Prasad SinghIND32214Hari Nandan YadavRJD243517863
93KalyanpurAshwamedh DeviSAP48404Alok Kumar MehtaRJD439294475
94Warisnagar (SC)Ram Sewak HazariJDU42250Bhikhar BaithaRJD2864013610
95SamastipurRam Nath ThakurJDU62641Ashok SinghRJD5135911282
96SarairanjanRamashraya SahniRJD56230Chandra Kant ChaudharyBJP504985732
97MohiuddinnagarRam Chandra RaiRJD53697Ajai Kumar BulganinJDU489334764
98DalsinghsaraiRam Padarnath MahtoRJD47580Vijaywant Kumar ChaudharyJDU2831519265
99BibhutipurRamdeo VermaCPIM55174Chandrabali ThakurINC3870716467
100Rosera (SC)Ashok KumarSAP53650Gajendra Pd. SinghRJD523301320
101SinghiaDr. Ashok KumarINC37346Jagadish PaswanJDU36607739
102HasanpurGajendra HimansuJDU51273Rajendra YadavRJD481453128
103BalliaShrinarayan YadavRJD46889Md. Tanweer HasanJDU46585304
104MatihaniRajendra RajanCPI32962Pramod Kumar SharmaINC262466716
105BegusaraiBhola Prasad SinghBJP51502Kamli MahtoCPI431528350
106BarauniRajendra Pd. SinghCPI45772Ram Lakhan SinghBJP394876285
107BachhwaraUttam Kumar YadavRJD29381Awdhesh RaiCPI28923458
108Cheria-BariarpurAshok KumarRJD63830Anil ChaudharyJDU2867635154
109Bakhri (SC)Ramanand RamRJD33572Ram Vinod PaswanCPI32989583
110RaghopurUday Prasad GoetRJD49374Lakhan ThakurJDU3680012574
111KishunpurYaduwansh Kumar YadavRJD38031Vijay Kumar GuptaINC314506581
112SupaulBijendra Pd. YadavJDU34321Vinayak Prasad YadavRJD318732448
113TriveniganjAnup Lal YadavRJD30015Bishwa Mohan KumarINC241735842
114Chhatapur (SC)Gita DeviRJD34143Vishwa Mohan BhartiJDU311872956
115Kumarkhand (SC)Bhupendra RishideoRJD65553Amit Kumar BhartiJDU3309832455
116SingheshwarVijay Kumar SinghRJD40228Upendra Narayan YadavJDU2096819260
117SaharsaShankar Prasad TekriwalRJD63858Lovely AnandBPSP4978114077
118MahishiAbdul GhafoorRJD49431Surendra YadavJDU3160717824
119Simri-BakhtiarpurMehboob Ali KaisarINC38781Zafar AlamRJD318226959
120MadhepuraRajendra Prasad YadavRJD77282Kapildeb MandalJDU4192435358
121SonbarshaAshok Kumar SinghRJD37425Kishor Kumar SinghIND331914234
122KishanganjProf. Ravindra Charan YadavRJD56197Md. Abdul SatarJDU2521430983
123AlamnagarNarendra Nr. YadavJDU35690Rajendra SinghRJD339771713
124RupauliBima BhartiIND20224Md. AlimuddinSP139166308
125DhamdahaLeshi SinghSAP39432Dilip Kumar YadavSP2541114021
126Banmankhi (SC)Deo Narayan RajakBJP44761Manorama DeviRJD3281611945
127Raniganj (SC)Yamuna Prasad RamRJD52035Ramji Das RishideoBJP3036521670
128NarpatganjJanardan YadavBJP33156Dayanand YadavRJD234369720
129ForbesganjZakir Hussain KhanBSP31982Laxmi Narayan MehtaIND254346548
130ArariaBijay Kumar MandalIND21698Moidur RahmanINC20981717
131SiktiAnandi Prasad YadavBJP54981Md. Azim UddinIND4079814183
132JokihatSarfrazRJD44274Manzer AlamJDU2577518499
133BahadurganjZahidur RahmanINC43222Awadh Bihari SinghBJP3057512647
134ThakurganjMohammad JawedINC40875Tarachand DhanukaIND341656710
135KishanganjTaslimuddinRJD37172Rajeshwar BaidBJP2318013992
136AmourAbdul Jalil MastanINC58399Saba ZafarRJD4256515834
137BaisiAbdus SubhanRJD35185Israil AzadJDU2121413971
138KasbaPradip Kumar DasBJP32222Md. Afaque AlamIND265535669
139PurniaRaj Kishore KesriBJP30776Ramcharitra YadavSP1885611920
140Korha (SC)Mahesh PaswanBJP45513Sunita DeviINC3137714136
141BarariMansoor AlamRJD37287Muhammad ShakurNCP1567121616
142KatiharRam Prakash MahtoRJD69030Jagbandhu AdhikariBJP4065928371
143KadwaHimraj SinghIND34352Abdul JalilRJD265897763
144BarsoiMahboob AlamCPIMLL62644Dulal Chandra GoswamiBJP3608526559
145PranpurBinod Singh KushwahaBJP39161Mahendra Narayan YadavRJD358103351
146ManihariVishwanath SinghJDU28881Saghir AhmadNCP220056876
147RajmahalArun MandalBJP36623Najrul IslamJMM2476111862
148Borio (ST)Lobin HembromJMM36170Tala MarandiINC294916679
149Barhait (ST)Hemlal MurmuJMM66599Lourens HansdaINC2847338126
150Litipara (ST)Sushila HansdaJMM35391Stephan SorenINC2488110510
151PakurAlamgir AlamINC49218Veni Prasad GuptaBJP3503314185
152Maheshpur (ST)Devidhan BesraBJP21145Sufal MarandiJMM170504095
153Sikaripara (ST)Nalin SorenJMM39259Chhoto MurmuBJP2312616133
154NalaBisheswar KhanCPI20324Rabindra Nath MahatoJMM19690634
155JamtaraFurkan AnsariINC19690Bishnu Prasad BhaiyaBJP33738-14048
156SarathShashank Shekhar BhoktaJMM60482Uday Shankar SinghBJP4701613466
157MadhupurHaji Hussain AnsariJMM35811Vishakha SinghBJP305795232
158Deoghar (SC)Suresh PaswanRJD48216Shankar PaswanJDU2739820818
159JarmundiDevendra KunwarBJP24082Harinarayan RoyBSP190095073
160Dumka (ST)Stephen MarandiJMM43010Satish SorenBJP3178811222
161Jama (ST)Durga SorenJMM41165Rabindra MarandiBJP2517915986
162PoreyahatPradeep YadavBJP54287Prasant MandalJMM3587418413
163GoddaSanjay Prasad YadavRJD30774Dukh Mochan ChoudharyBJP236637111
164MahagamaAshok KumarBJP32025Ataur Rahman SiddiqueRJD2151910506
165PirpaintiShobhakant MandalRJD43329Ambika PrasadCPI3192811401
166ColgongSadanand SinghINC63579Mahesh Prasad MandalRJD3794425635
167NathnagarSudha ShrivastavaSAP43608Lutfur RehmanRJD347638845
168BhagalpurAshwini Kumar ChaubeyBJP64364Arun KumarRJD4148722877
169GopalpurRabindra Kumar RanaRJD67813Narendar Kr. NirajSAP4984817965
170BihpurShailesh KumarRJD39637Dr. Bimla RoyBJP2215917478
171Sultanganj (SC)Ganesh PaswanSP22159Phanindra ChoudharyRJD39252-17093
172AmarpurSurendra Prasad Singh KushwahaRJD49144Bedanand SinghSAP399349210
173Dhuraiya (SC)Bhudeo ChoudharySAP57632Ramrup HarijanRJD2884028792
174BankaRam Narayan MandalBJP58648Iqbal Hussain AnsaraiRJD3842620222
175BelharRamdeo YadavRJD45892Deosharan SinghSAP3078115111
176KatoriaGiridhari YadavRJD51558Kaleshwar YadavBJP2230129257
177ChakaiNarendra SinghIND58345Falguni Prasad YadavBJP2787430471
178JhajhaDamodar RawatSAP27480Dr. Ravindra YadavRJD258351645
179TarapurShakuni ChoudharyRJD68864Rajiv Kumar SinghSAP3924729617
180KharagpurJay Prakash Narayan YadavRJD82104Anita DeviJDU3003252072
181ParbattaSamrat ChoudharyRJD48202Ramanand Prasad SinghIND3542512777
182ChauthamPanna Lal Singh PatelSAP40168Vidya Sagar NishadRJD370873081
183KhagariaYogendra Singh KushwahaCPIM37567Chandramukhi DeviBJP349542613
184Alauli (SC)Pashupati Kumar ParasJDU52740Ram Briksh SadaRJD480544686
185MonghyrMonazir HassanRJD50150Prof. Asfar SamsiBJP416808470
186JamalpurUpendra Prasad VermaRJD41906Shailesh KumarIND405351371
187SurajgarhaPrahlad YadavRJD54410Bhagwat Pd. MehtaBJP2754626864
188JamuiNarendra SinghJDU44656Umashankar BhagatIND382776379
189Sikandra (SC)Prayaag ChoudharyKP51244Janakdeo RamJDU2540125843
190LakhisaraiKrishna Chandra Prasad SinghBJP46372Phulena SinghRJD3419212180
191SheikhpuraSanjay Kumar SinghINC87650Vijay Kumar YadavRJD2711360537
192Barbigha (SC)Ashok ChaudharyINC63697Manohar PaswanSAP2517038527
193AsthawanRaghunath Prasad SharmaIND40175Satish KumarNCP2676113414
194BiharSyed NaushadunnabiRJD64981Dr. Sunil KumarIND4099923982
195Rajgir (SC)Satyadev Narayan AryaBJP60068Chandradeo Prasad HimanshuRJD4609713971
196NalandaShrawan KumarSAP55940Ram Naresh SinghIND4149814442
197IslampurRamswaroop PrasadSAP76015Naresh YadavRJD2770548310
198HilsaRamcharitra Prasad SinghSAP55218Baiju PrasadRJD4436910849
199ChandiHarinarain SinghSAP57749Usha SinhaRJD3930818441
200HarnautVishvamohan ChoudharySAP47530Sunil KumarRJD397737757
201MokamehSuraj SinghIND102499Dilip Kumar SinghRJD4302859471
202BarhBhunewashwar Prasad SinghSAP73404Vijay KrishnaRJD4681026594
203BakhtiarpurVinod YadavBJP32438Brij Nandan YadavRJD31570868
204Fatwa (SC)Dinesh ChoudharyRJD46850Puneet RoyJDU398976953
205MasaurhiDharmendra PrasadRJD70370Punam DeviSAP4857121799
206Patna WestNavin Kishore SinhaBJP84096Shiv Nath Yadav Alias Babban YadavRJD4723936857
207Patna CentralSushil Kumar ModiBJP85832KanchanwalaRJD1976366069
208Patna EastNand Kishore YadavBJP65377Gyanedra Kumar YadavRJD3388531492
209DinapurLalu Prasad YadavRJD64085Rama Nand YadavBJP4653017555
210ManerBhai VirendraSAP52491Shrikant NiralaRJD478564635
211Phulwari (SC)Shyam RajakRJD47856Sanjeev Prasad TonyINC386669190
212BikramRam Janam SharmaBJP72478Chadrama Singh YadavRJD4704125437
213PaliganjDinanath SinghRJD64376Janardan SharmaBJP2803936337
214SandeshVijendra Kumar YadavRJD47393Sonadhari SinghSAP3235615037
215BarharaRaghwendra Pratap SinghRJD47867Bhai BrahmeshwarSAP412846583
216ArrahAmrendra Pratap SinghBJP48848Abdul MalickRJD3339515453
217ShahpurShivanand TiwariRJD60807Dharm Pal SinghSAP3917521632
218BrahmpurAjit ChaudharyRJD30236Dhruv TiwariBJP253684868
219BuxarSukhada PandeyBJP27151Manju PrakashCPM254781673
220Rajpur (SC)Chhedi Lal RamBSP21604Kamakhya NarayanRJD199891615
221DumraonDadan SinghIND29900Ram Bihari SinghSAP220297871
222JagdishpurShri Bhagwan Singh KushwahaSAP31076Harinarayan SinghRJD2084610230
223PiroNarendra Kumar PandeySAP43160Kashinath SinghRJD395003660
224Sahar (SC)Ram Naresh RamCPIMLL43290Shankuntala DeviBJP2277020520
225KarakatArun Singh KushwahaCPIMLL39254Tulsi SinghRJD304668788
226BikramganjAkhlaque AhmadSAP55162Suryadeo SinghRJD2284832314
227DinaraRam Dhani SinghJDU53489Saroj Kumar GuptaRJD4241111078
228RamgarhJagadanand SinghRJD48840Malti DeviBSP2429924541
229Mohania (SC)Suresh PasiBSP49510Ramkeshi BhartiRJD2542524085
230BhabuaPramod SinghRJD33195Brij Kishore BindBSP318621333
231ChainpurMahabali SinghBSP27077Kishore PrasadIND219755102
232SasaramAshok KushwahaRJD62673Jawahir PrasadBJP4931713356
233Chenari (SC)Chhedi PaswanRJD40738Ram Bachan PaswanBPSP350535685
234NokhaRameshwar PrasadBJP43959Anand Mohan SinghRJD3066513294
235DehriMd. Ilyas HusainRJD57123Gopal Narayan SinghBJP4433612787
236NabinagarBheem KumarRJD63577Raghuvansh Prasad SinghIND2018643391
237Deo (SC)Suresh PaswanRJD40660Dil Keshwar RamINC367723888
238AurangabadSuresh MehtaRJD41176Ramadhar SinghBJP326038573
239RafiganjSushil Kumar SinghSAP32918Md. NehaludinRJD2272410194
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323Chhatarpur (SC)Manoj KumarRJD20864Sumitra PaswanJDU146996165
324HussainabadSanjay Kumar Singh YadavRJD28074Dashrath Kumar SinghSAP221025972

Government formation

The result was a setback for the BJP, which in media campaigns was emerging with a massive victory. RJD emerged as the single largest party. In March 2000, Nitish Kumar was elected Chief Minister of Bihar for the first time at the behest of the Vajpayee Government in the centre.[6] NDA and allies had 151 MLAs whereas Lalu Prasad Yadav had 159 MLAs in the 324 member house. Both alliances were less than the majority mark that is 163. Nitish resigned before he could prove his numbers in the house.[7][8] He lasted 7 days in the post.[9]

With the political manoeuvring of Lalu Yadav, Rabri Devi was sworn in as the Chief Minister again.[10] The ruling Rashtriya Janata Dal agreed to the formation of Jharkhand though a large chunk of Bihar's revenues went to the new State, because the party then had a majority of its own in the Bihar Assembly after the bifurcation of the State.

The media largely failed to gauge the ground level polarisation in Bihar.[5] According to Sanjay Kumar:

there can be no doubt about one thing that the upper-caste media was always anti-Lalu and it was either not aware of the ground level polarisation in Bihar, or deliberately ignored it. If the election result did not appear as a setback for RJD, it was largely because of the bleak picture painted by the media. Against this background, RJD's defeat had appeared like a victory.[11]

Even after serving imprisonment in connection with the 1997 scam, Lalu seemed to relish his role as the lower-caste jester. He argued that corruption charges against him and his family were the conspiracy of the upper-caste bureaucracy and media elites threatened by the rise of peasant cultivator castes.

References

  1. ^ "Bihar sees highest turnout in 15 years - Times of India". The Times of India. 6 November 2015.
  2. ^ "Nitish Kumar's government in Bihar not outvoted as much as outmanoeuvred by Laloo Yadav". India Today. 20 March 2000.
  3. ^ a b "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2000 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF BIHARE ELECTION" (PDF). CEO Bihar. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Nitish Kumar gets first shy at govt formation in Bihar, Laloo Yadav set to fight back". India Today.
  5. ^ a b c d Sanjay Kumar (2018). "Re-emergence of RJD: elections of 2000". Post-Mandal Politics in Bihar: Changing Electoral Patterns. SAGE publishing India. pp. 85–86. ISBN 978-9352805860. Archived from the original on 6 August 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  6. ^ "From the archives (2000) | When Nitish Kumar became Bihar CM for first time". India Today.
  7. ^ Kumar, Abhay (24 November 2019). "March 2000: When Nitish quit as CM, before floor test". Deccan Herald. Archived from the original on 7 April 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  8. ^ "Outvoted as much as outmanoeuvred by Laloo Yadav". Archived from the original on 7 April 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  9. ^ Nair, Sobhana K. (9 August 2022). "Nitish Kumar's wavering affections for BJP and RJD". The Hindu – via www.thehindu.com.
  10. ^ "RJD silver jubilee today: The high and low points that the Bihar party went through in the last 25 years". Firstpost. 5 July 2021.
  11. ^ Sanjay Kumar (2018). "Re-emergence of RJD: elections of 2000". Post-Mandal Politics in Bihar: Changing Electoral Patterns. SAGE publishing India. pp. 85–86. ISBN 978-9352805860. Archived from the original on 6 August 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
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