The 48-year-old RJD candidate Misa Bharti has finally defeated her party’s rebel and BJP’s sitting MP Ram Kripal Yadav, who she addresses as ‘chacha’, from Pataliputra Lok Sabha constituency in Patna. She had been eyeing for this seat since 2014 and finally managed to dethrone him with a margin of around 70,000 votes.

Yadav, once a close confidant of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, had joined the BJP after getting carried away with Narendra Modi’s wave in 2014. He managed to register two consecutive wins in LS polls from the seat but failed to convert it into a hat-trick win this time as there was clear anti-incumbency in the constituency.
Though Yadav claims to be in constant touch with his party workers and address every public grievance, local sources in the constituency told mid-day that his last term was ridiculous as ‘voters were really unhappy because of the alarmingly high use of drugs among youngsters in his constituency,’ said a source.