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| Source: IE |
BUXAR: Former health
minister in Nitish Kumar cabinet Ashwini Kumar Choubey, who shifted from his
home district Bhagalpur
Lalmuni had filed his
nomination papers as an Independent and after repeated persuasions from the BJP's
prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, he agreed to withdraw his papers and
attended an election meeting addressed by Modi on April 2 week here. Claiming
he was not keeping in sound health, Lalmuni is not campaigning in support of
the BJP candidate.
Sources close to him said
since he was denied ticket on health ground how one can expect him to remain
active in campaign at Buxar. He is unwell. His son Shishir said Lalmuni would, however,
stay in Varanasi
Local BJP leaders-Ajay Yadav
and Madhav Chandra Srivastava present at the party's election office, said the
BJP candidate is getting support of all party workers in the constitutency. BJP
president Rajnath Singh will address an election meeting at Ramgarh on Tuesday.
Ramgarh is the assembly
segment of the RJD candidate and former minister in Lalu-Rabri cabinet
Jagadanand Singh who is banking on the development works in the constitutency.
The constitutency spread
over Buxar, Rohtas and Kaimur districts still faces two unattended problems- closure
of textile mill at Dumraon and presence of arsenic in drinking water. The much-awaited
Malai barrage is still incomplete. Buxar-Ara road is in very bad shape, the
electorates complained.
In the 2009 elections, Dadan
Singh alias Pahalwan who had contested the polls as an Independent, had polled 1.22
lakh votes. Now, he is contesting as Bahujan Samaj Party nominee. Shyamlal
Kushwaha, who as BSP nominee in 2009 had polled 1.27 lakh votes, is now a JD (U)
candidate.
Buxar had sent the then
maharaja of Dumraon Kamal Singh, former union ministers A P Sharma and K K
Tiwari to Lok sabha in the past. For five terms, the seat was won by Congress
candidates, twice by CPI and four-time winner was BJP's Lalmuni Chaubey. In 2009,
the seat was won by RJD.
On Monday, LJP president
Ramvilas Paswan and former deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi jointly addressed an
election meeting in support of BJP candidate having a sizable upper caste and
dalit voters. With Shahpur assembly segment shifted to Ara following
delimitation, the number of Brahmin voters has declined in Buxar parliamentary
constituency.
Buxar constituency comprises
six assembly segments - Brahmpur, Buxar, Dumraon and Rajpur (reserved) assembly
segments in Buxar district, Dinara in Rohtas and Ramgarh in Kaimur district. Out
of six assembly segments in this parliamentry constituency three: Dumraon, Dinara
and Rajpur have JD(U) MLAs, Buxar and Brahmpur are represented by BJP while
Ramgarh assembly seat is in RJD's kitty.
RJD sitting MP Jagadanand
Singh, who is seeking second term, has been facing the wrath of contractors and
liquor traders of the district. Road construction department has slapped a fine
and showcause notices on several road contractors of the district after the RJD
MP complained of low quality construction of roads.
It may be a difficult
journey for the sitting RJD MP but he is very popular among the Rajputs, said
Kamal Bihari Singh, a farmer of Ramobariya village of Buxar assembly segment. However,
Mithilesh Kumar Singh, convenor of Lok Samta Manch, is all praise for the
sitting MP. He said, "Our MP is second parliamentarian of the country
after one from Andhra Pradesh who put 681 in parliament in which 589 are related
to Buxar constituency. He has given several buses to schools, Rs one crore for
installation of transformers and got constructed several schools buildings. He
has spent Rs 19.5 crore from his MPLAD fund for the development of this
constituency."
But, riding on Narendra Modi
wave, BJP nominee Choubey, who is running neck and neck with the RJD's
Jagadanand in the popularity stake, is confident of wresting the seat from the
RJD claiming young voters of all castes will vote for the BJP aggressively.
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