Former Odisha Director General of Police (DGP) and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha candidate for Jharkhand’s Godda Assembly by-poll Sanjeev Marik lost the election, the result of which was declared on Thursday.
Marik polled 18,337 votes finishing in the third position after the BJP and the RJD.
Sources said the BJP’s Amit Mandal, son of Raghunandan Mandal, who was the sitting party MlA from Godda, won by a margin of 34,551 votes, defeating RJD candidate Sanjay Yadav. Mandal polled 83,987 votes and Yadav 49,436 votes.