Strong Modi wave has saved the prestige of Bharatiya Janta Party in Hazaribagh district and in Hazaribagh parliamentary constituency. It was the Modi wave that gave comfortable wins to BJP and its allies candidates while the opposition got tough contest in those seats which finally they won. At Agriculture Produce Marketing Yard, Hazaribagh, counting of votes for four constituencies, Hazaribagh Sadar, Mandu, Barhi and Barkattha was held. Here Congress, JVM, JMM and BJP got one seat each. At Ramgarh counting for two seats was done and in these two one went to AJSU and other to Congress.
Manish Jaiswal of BJP brought back the Hazaribagh seat in BJP’s bag after a gap of 10 years. He defeated his nearest rival Pradeep Prasad by a huge margin of about 27,000 votes. Manish got 89,675 while Pradeep got 62,546 votes. Jaishankar Pathak failed to retain this seat for his Congress party. He got only 11,528 votes coming after Raji Ahmed of CPI who got 14,290 votes.
JMM’s Jaiprakash Bhai Patel managed to retain his Mandu seat. He got 78,427 votes and defeated Kumar Mahesh Singh of BJP who gave him a tough fight with 71398 votes. Khiru Mahto of JD(U) managed to get only 17,427 votes while JVM’s Chandranath Bhai Patel, who is a close relative of JP Patel, managed to get 24,589 votes. Manoj Kumar Yadav regained the Barhi seat which he had lost in 2009 in a tough contest. Manoj got 57618 to defeat Uma Shankar Akela of BJP having 50588 votes. JMM’s Sabi Devi, wife of late Tileshwar Sahu, got 39199 while JVM’s Yogendra Pratap Singh got only 5850 votes.
The voters of Barkattha finally gave the verdict of end of exile of Janki Prasad Yadav. Since last 14+ years in every election Janki always remained on second position here. This time on JVM’s ticket he got 63336 votes and defeated BJP’s Amit Yadav who got 55129 votes. Here two Mahto stalwarts of the district JMM’s Digambar Mehta and JDU’s Bateshwar Prasad Mehta managed to get only 19282 and 17183 votes.