Katihar is one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar. The state has 40 parliamentary seats. The Katihar seat comprises 6 Assembly segments including Katihar, Kadwa, Balrampur, Pranpur, Manihari(st), Barari. The constituency is a GENERAL seat. The JD(U), the INC are the main parties in the constituency. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Dulal Chandra Goswami from JD(U) won the seat with a margin of 57,203 votes. Dulal Chandra Goswami was polled 559,423 votes with a vote share of 50.00 % and defeated Tariq Anwar from INC who got 502,220 votes (44.91 %). In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Tariq Anwar from NCP won the seat and was polled 431,292 votes with a vote share of 44.11%. BJP candidate Nikhil Kumar Choudhary got 316,552 votes (32.37 %) and was the runner-up.Tariq Anwar defeated Nikhil Kumar Choudhary by a margin of 114,740 votes.
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Phoolan Devi won her first Lok Sabha election on the ticket of Samajwadi Party from Mirzapur constituency in 1996. Later, she lost the seat to BJP's Virendra Singh in 1998 general elections. In 1999, she again won the seat and held it till her assassination on July 25, 2001.
The Election Commission office in Mizoram on Sunday said more than 1,000 policemen in the state were unable to cast their votes in the Lok Sabha polls held on April 19. But what could be the reason and what did the Election Commission say?
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Amid polling for five Lok Sabha and 35 Assembly seats in Odisha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday predicted BJP's historic win in the state. He said, on June 10, the state will certainly have the first BJP CM.