Cabinet minister's mother & BJP MP's wife face defeats in civic body polls in Bihar

PATNA: The results of the first phase of civic bodies polls on Tuesday brought many surprises. While the mother of a state’s cabinet minister lost the election in Dighwara Nagar Panchayat, the wife of a BJP MP faced a humiliating debacle in Hajipur Nagar Parishad.
State’s labour resources minister Surendra Ram’s mother Kalawati Devi lost the election of ward councillor from ward no-07 of Dighwara nagar panchayat by a margin of 139 votes to one Muneshwar Paswan.While Kalawati got 238 votes, Muneshwar, a farmer, won the election by securing 377 votes.
In Hajipur Nagar Parishad election, Rama Nishad, the wife of BJP’s Muzaffarpur MP Ajay Nishad, had to face a humiliating defeat at the hands of a greenhorn Jyotsana Kumari.
Rama, who earlier held the post of the Hajipur Nagar Parishad chairperson, was this time contesting the election of ward councillor from ward no-01. But she lost the election to a first-timer Jyotsana by 53 votes. Jyotsana, who has completed an MBA course from the LNMI, Patna, is daughter-in-law of JD(U) leader Vijay Sahni.
In the Bagaha Nagar Parishad election, the JD(U) MLC Bhishma Sahani’s wife and daughter-in-law both lost the election. While Sahani’s daughter-in-law Rinki Devi contested the election for the post of the chairperson, his wife Godawari Devi for the ward councillor from ward no-35. Both trailed at the third position in their respective election.