2026

CM Nitish Kumar and RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav are main faces in the state; PM Modi and Rahul Gandhi have also focused on Bihar over the past few months

Anita Kumari Mahto, 45, whom the dreaded and convicted gangster Ashok Mahto, 57, married, is fighting on an RJD ticket. With the Mahto surname, she is expected to give the sitting MP Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh a very tough fight. Mr. Singh, a former JD(U) president considered close to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, has been an MP from Munger twice – in 2009 and 2019. But in 2014, he lost to Veena Devi, wife of yesteryear don Surajbhan Singh, who fought from the united Lok Janshakti Party.

Kumar Pranay of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the 2025 Bihar Assembly Election from the Munger constituency, according to Election Commission of India and ADR reports. He was highlighted as the richest candidate in the election, with declared assets over ₹170 crore.

The road to Bihar elections is getting interesting and in a dramatic political twist just hours before the state goes to the polls, Jan Suraj Party’s Munger Assembly candidate, Sanjay Singh, has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The move, coming on the eve of the first phase of voting, has sent shockwaves through the local political landscape.

Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi’s recent visit to a prominent mosque in the election-bound Bihar has recreated a photo that originally included his father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. The images from two different political eras bear a stark similarity, showing the two leaders sitting at the Khanqah Rahmani mosque in Munger