Shankar, who quit the Lok Janshakti Party to contest by-election as a rebel, defeated JD(U)’s Kaladhar Prasad Mandal by 8,211 votes while pushing RJD’s Bima Bharti to the third position. While Chief Minister Nitish had campaigned for Mandal, RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav had addressed rallies in favour of Bharti in the by-election.Shankar Singh secured 67,779 votes followed by Mandal, who scored 59,568 votes. Bharti scored just 30,108 votes. Interestingly, 5,675 voters cast their votes for NOTA. Singh, stated to be a self-styled commander of North Bihar Liberation Army, a private organisation to fight against Bharti’s husband Awadhesh Mandal’s tyranny, had served as MLA from Rupauli from February 2005 to November 2005.
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