Bihar Bypoll Results 2019: Big Jolt For NDA, AIMIM Opens Account

Bihar Bypoll Results 2019 Live Updates: BIhar: The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) suffered a huge setback, losing four of the five assembly seats where by-elections were held in the state. However, the sole Lok Sabha seat which went to the polls, Samastipur, was retained by ally Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party. Prince Raj of LJP won the seat that was won by his father Ramchandra Paswan in 2019 lok sabha elections.

Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM opened its account in the state winning the Kisanganj seat. 

The bypolls for one Lok Sabha and five assembly seats in Bihar was being touted as the semi-finals ahead of the assembly elections due next year. 

The bypoll in Samastipur was necessitated by the death of sitting Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) MP Ramchandra Paswan. The assembly segments have fallen vacant upon the respective MLAs getting elected to the Lok Sabha.

NDA held Samastipur Lok Sabha seat besides all the poll-bound assembly segments barring Kishanganj, which was won by the Congress in the 2015 assembly polls.

The coalition, which comprises Chief Minister Nitish Kumars JD(U), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswans LJP, has been riding high since its astounding performance in the Lok Sabha polls in which it won 39 out of 40 seats besides wresting two assembly segments from Lalu Prasads RJD where by-elections were held simultaneously.