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Mahua Election Results: RJD supremo Lalu Prasad's elder son and Janshakti Janta Dal chief Tej Pratap was in the third slot in Mahua seat after the 13th round of counting, according to trends available on the Election Commission website on Friday.

Yadav, who recently floated his political outfit after being expelled from the RJD by his father, had been in the fourth spot after the eighth round. He was trailing by 27,132 votes from Sanjay Kumar Singh of Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), who is leading there.

Yadav polled 16,522 votes after the 13th round, while Singh of LJP (Ram Vilas) bagged 43,654 votes followed by Mukesh Kumar Raushan of the RJD (24,480 votes). Amit Kumar of AIMIM who earlier occupied the third spot slipped to the fourth position with 10,563 votes polled.

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Tej Pratap was expelled from the RJD on May 25 for six years, a day after he reportedly confessed to being 'in a relationship' with a woman. He, however, deleted the social media post later claiming that his page was "hacked". Lalu Prasad also disowned Tej Pratap due to his "irresponsible behaviour".

Raghopur witnesses nail-biting contest, Tejashwi now leading by few hundred votes

The Raghopur assembly seat in Bihar was witnessing a neck-and-neck fight on Friday, with the INDIA bloc's CM face Tejashwi Yadav leading by barely a few hundred votes after trailing for a while. After eight rounds of counting, Yadav was leading by 585 votes over his nearest rival, Satish Kumar of the BJP, according to the Election Commission.

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Tejashwi has so far secured 31,654 votes, while the BJP candidate has bagged 31,069 votes. Jan Suraaj Party's Chanchal Kumar was in the third spot with 1,016 votes. Tejashwi has held the seat for the last 10 years, defeating BJP's Kumar in both the 2015 and 2020 assembly elections.

Overall, the ruling NDA appeared to register a landslide victory, opening up impressive leads in more than 190 seats, with early trends also indicating that the BJP was on track to post its biggest tally with an excellent strike rate. 

(With inputs from agency)

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