Begusarai has long been known as the “Leningrad of Bihar” or the It has become known as “Mini Moscow”. .
More than 100 politicians belonging to the Communist Party and the Congress party have been killed in Begusarai village over the years. The BJP entered the Begusarai political space in 2014 when its candidate Bhola Singh won the Lok Sabha elections and the party’s presence increased in 2019 when its candidate Giriraj Singh joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Association. It culminated when it won the constituency by defeating CPI candidate Kanhaiya Kumar, former chairman of . Coalition, margin of over 400,000 votes.
Begusarai constituency is also a stronghold of the upper caste Bhumihar community. Since independence, all candidates who have won the seat have been from this community, except in 2009, when Janata Dal (United) candidate Monazir Hassan won the polls. This time, we will talk about Bharatiya Janata Party candidate and incumbent MP Giriraj Singh (from Bhumihar) and Awadesh Kumar Rai (backward Yadav caste), former three-time CPI MLA from Bakwala Assembly constituency. (from) will compete against each other.
Of the total 2.1 million voters in Begusarai, Bhumihars account for over 300,000, while Yadavs and Muslims each account for over 2.5 million. “But what no one knows is that the number of backward and extremely backward voters is greater than all these caste groups in the constituency,” said Abhishek Kumar, a young voter who runs a news portal. says.
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