- By Aditya Jha
- Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:07 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Bihar Election 2025: The much-hyped assembly election in Bihar is scheduled to be conducted in the later months of the year. While the ruling NDA under the leadership of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will try to repeat the government, the opposition INDIA-Bloc will try to form a government after a decade. The reports suggest that both the alliances have started their preparations for the election and are likely to announce their candidates in the upcoming months. Apart from the traditional parties, Prashant Kishor-led Jan Suraaj has also entered the contest, making it more competitive.
One of the most crucial seats for both the alliances is Kishanganj's Kochadhaman, which came into existence in 2008. Kochadhaman is one of the seats where no candidate has been able to win two consecutive times (full term), seeking more planning from the parties. The first assembly election on Kochadhaman were held for the first time in 2010 in which Akhtarul Iman of the RJD emerged victorious. While Imam received 37,376 votes, his closest opponent Mujahid Alam could only get 28,351 votes.
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However in the 2014 by-election, JDU candidate Mujahid Alam defeated Congress' Sadiq Samdani by more than 10,000 votes. While Mujahid Alam received 41,288 votes, the Congress candidate could only manage to get 31,050 votes. The incumbent MLA Akhtarul Iman had left the RJD to contest the Kishanganj Lok Sabha seat on a JDU ticket.
In the 2015 assembly elections, Mujahid Alam was re-elected as MLA on a JDU ticket. At that time, JDU was part of the Grand Alliance which defeated the BJP-led NDA. Mujahid Alam received 55,929 votes, while Akhtarul Iman of AIMIM could manage to get 37,086 votes. In the 2020 assembly elections, Haji Izhar Asfi was elected MLA on an AIMIM ticket, defeating JDU candidate Mujahid Alam by 36,143 votes.