Don wives face dusk as voters reject most in Bihar | India News – Times of India
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PATNA: Bihar dealt a hard blow to dons-turned-politicians’ proxies, aka their wives. Four such candidates were in the fray but three of them bit dust, while one scraped through.
Kumari Anita, whose marriage to Nawada jailbreak convict Ashok Mahto was in itself a poll gimmick, contested from Munger on an RJD ticket against JD(U)’s Rajiv Ranjan Singh, alias Lalan Singh, who won by 80,870 votes.
Anita tied the knot with Mahto in March after being advised by RJD president Lalu Prasad to field his wife from the seat, as being a convict of more than two years’ sentence, he himself couldn’t contest. Since Mahto was not married at the time, he instantly went on a bride hunt and got married. Moments after wedding during an “inauspicious period”, Mahto, accompanied by his newly-wed wife, went to Prasad’s residence and the latter blessed her with an RJD ticket.
Among other losers are Bima Bharti – wife of Awadhesh Mandal facing murder, kidnapping and extortion cases- from Purnia, and Hena Shahab, widow of convict Mohammad Shahabuddin, from Siwan. Bharti too contested on a RJD ticket and got 27,017 votes – equivalent to NOTA’s 23,819 as she finished a distant third.
Shahab contested as Independent from Siwan – considered the “pocket borough” of Shahabuddin who was convicted in a kidnap-cum-murder case in 2007. She lost to JD(U) winner Vijayalaxmi Devi.
Lovely Anand, wife of murder convict Anand Mohan, is the lone winner among the don spouses. She won Sheohar on a JD(U) ticket, by 29,143 votes. -Manoj Chaurasia
Kumari Anita, whose marriage to Nawada jailbreak convict Ashok Mahto was in itself a poll gimmick, contested from Munger on an RJD ticket against JD(U)’s Rajiv Ranjan Singh, alias Lalan Singh, who won by 80,870 votes.
Anita tied the knot with Mahto in March after being advised by RJD president Lalu Prasad to field his wife from the seat, as being a convict of more than two years’ sentence, he himself couldn’t contest. Since Mahto was not married at the time, he instantly went on a bride hunt and got married. Moments after wedding during an “inauspicious period”, Mahto, accompanied by his newly-wed wife, went to Prasad’s residence and the latter blessed her with an RJD ticket.
Among other losers are Bima Bharti – wife of Awadhesh Mandal facing murder, kidnapping and extortion cases- from Purnia, and Hena Shahab, widow of convict Mohammad Shahabuddin, from Siwan. Bharti too contested on a RJD ticket and got 27,017 votes – equivalent to NOTA’s 23,819 as she finished a distant third.
Shahab contested as Independent from Siwan – considered the “pocket borough” of Shahabuddin who was convicted in a kidnap-cum-murder case in 2007. She lost to JD(U) winner Vijayalaxmi Devi.
Lovely Anand, wife of murder convict Anand Mohan, is the lone winner among the don spouses. She won Sheohar on a JD(U) ticket, by 29,143 votes. -Manoj Chaurasia
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