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Bihar Polls 2025: Actress Neha Sharma’s Father Ajeet Sharma Loses To BJP’s Rohit Pandey In Bhagalpur | Elections News

Bihar Polls 2025: Actress Neha Sharma’s Father Ajeet Sharma Loses To BJP’s Rohit Pandey In Bhagalpur | Elections News

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Last Updated:November 14, 2025, 21:30 IST Actor Neha Sharma’s father Ajeet Sharma, a senior Congress leader, has held the Bhagalpur Assembly seat since 2014, winning again in 2015 and 2020. Neha Sharma’s Father Ajeet Sharma Trails in Bihar’s Bhagalpur. As vote counting wrapped up in the Bhagalpur Assembly constituency on Friday, Congress MLA Ajeet Sharma, father of Bollywood actor Neha Sharma, lost to BJP candidate Rohit Pandey by a margin of more than 13,000 votes. According to the Election Commission, Sharma secured 87,296 votes, while the BJP candidate received 1,00,770 votes after 28 rounds of counting. Who is Ajeet Sharma? The three-time MLA, who has been a prominent figure in the constituency for a decade, faces a tough contest this time despite an energetic campaign that saw his actor-daughter take centre stage. Ajeet Sharma, a senior Congress leader, has held the Bhagalpur Assembly seat since 2014, winning again in 2015 and 2020. Known for his organisational networks and personal outreach, he has long been considered one of the party’s dependable faces in the region. With …

Can Congress overcome its ‘weak link’ tag in Bihar polls?

Can Congress overcome its ‘weak link’ tag in Bihar polls?

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The Data Point published on Wednesday discussed in detail the spoiler effect created by Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) in the 2020 Bihar Assembly election and examined the possibility of it influencing the upcoming 2025 polls as well. This effect was one of the key reasons the 2020 election turned out to be a closely fought contest between the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the RJD-led mahagatbandhan (grand alliance). Today, we will examine another major reason behind the close contest in 2020—the Congress party’s poor performance—and assess whether this imbalance within the alliance could influence the outcome of the 2025 polls. In 2020, Congress recorded a contested vote share of 32.9%, the lowest among major mahagatbandhan alliance partners, as shown in Table below. In comparison, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) secured 39%, CPI 33.3%, CPI(M) 37.6%, and CPI(ML)(L) 41.4%. Contested vote share refers to the percentage of votes a party receives in the seats it fought. In the 2015 election, Congress recorded a contested vote share of 39.5%. Table 2 shows the strike rate of parties, calculated by …