11-09-2006, 10:43 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>NDA wins Bhagalpur, Nalanda seats in Bihar </b>
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Agencies | Patna
Bihar's ruling <b>NDA today retained the Bhagalpur and Nalanda Lok Sabha seats</b>, inflicting a convincing defeat on the divided UPA and its Left Front partners.
<b>BJP candidate Syed Shahnawaz Hussain, the solo Muslim face in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government, defeated RJD's Shakuni Chaudhary by 55,611 votes in by-polls to the Bhagalpur seat where 13 aspirants were in the fray</b>.
Hussain polled 2,21,001 votes, and Chaudhary, a former MP from Munger, secured 1,65,390 votes.
CPI-M's Subodh Roy, a former MP from Bhagalpur who was backed by<b> Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP, Congress, NCP and CPI, was relegated to the third position </b>with 79,363 votes. <!--emo&
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In the Nalanda constituency, vacated by Nitish Kumar on becoming Bihar's chief minister<b>, JD-U nominee and Islampur MLA Ram Swaroop Prasad trounced RJD-backed independent and former MP Arun Kumar by a margin of over 1.17 lakh votes.</b> Eight candidates were in the fray in Nalanda.
Prasad polled 1,71,592 votes, while Kumar, who recently quit the JD-U, got just 53,840 votes. CPI's Gay Singh, supported by the<b> LJP, Congress, NCP and CPI-M, finished a poor third with 31,915 votes</b>. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Pioneer.com
Agencies | Patna
Bihar's ruling <b>NDA today retained the Bhagalpur and Nalanda Lok Sabha seats</b>, inflicting a convincing defeat on the divided UPA and its Left Front partners.
<b>BJP candidate Syed Shahnawaz Hussain, the solo Muslim face in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government, defeated RJD's Shakuni Chaudhary by 55,611 votes in by-polls to the Bhagalpur seat where 13 aspirants were in the fray</b>.
Hussain polled 2,21,001 votes, and Chaudhary, a former MP from Munger, secured 1,65,390 votes.
CPI-M's Subodh Roy, a former MP from Bhagalpur who was backed by<b> Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP, Congress, NCP and CPI, was relegated to the third position </b>with 79,363 votes. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> In the Nalanda constituency, vacated by Nitish Kumar on becoming Bihar's chief minister<b>, JD-U nominee and Islampur MLA Ram Swaroop Prasad trounced RJD-backed independent and former MP Arun Kumar by a margin of over 1.17 lakh votes.</b> Eight candidates were in the fray in Nalanda.
Prasad polled 1,71,592 votes, while Kumar, who recently quit the JD-U, got just 53,840 votes. CPI's Gay Singh, supported by the<b> LJP, Congress, NCP and CPI-M, finished a poor third with 31,915 votes</b>. <!--emo&
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