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BJP's Singh wins Tirhut teacher seat, Bihar election broadcast reports

The live coverage combines celebrations in Muzaffarpur with provisional leads elsewhere and a dispute over ballots inside a counting hall.

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Bihar MLC Election Results LIVE: किसके खाते में आएगी जीत? | Bihar Politics | Breaking News

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0:24Narendra Prasad Singh credits the NDA and party workers for his reported Tirhut teacher constituency victory.
14:01Provisional trends put the NDA ahead in three seats, Jan Suraaj in one and an independent in another.
21:40The anchor reports RJD's Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Singh leading BJP's Naval Kishore Yadav in Patna's teacher constituency.
27:46The anchor explains the majority threshold required to win through first-preference votes.
54:16Counting agents dispute doubtful ballots in Tirhut; an official explains that he will decide contested papers.
56:47Pappu Yadav criticizes what he describes as money and mafia influence in Legislative Council elections.

BJP workers celebrate outside a Muzaffarpur counting center as reporter Manibhushan Sharma announces that Narendra Prasad Singh has won Bihar's Tirhut teacher constituency by 594 votes. Singh credits his party, the National Democratic Alliance and its workers; his wife describes the result as an expression of teachers' trust.

The scenes appear in a live election broadcast posted by Aaj Tak, India's Hindi-language news channel, covering graduate and teacher constituencies in the Bihar Legislative Council. The council is the upper house of the eastern Indian state's legislature, and these contests involve specialized electorates rather than a statewide general election.

The video is titled "Bihar MLC Election Results LIVE: किसके खाते में आएगी जीत? | Bihar Politics | Breaking News", meaning "Live: Bihar MLC election results: Who will win?" Its running scoreboard is provisional: it initially shows trends from five of the eight seats, with the BJP-led NDA ahead in three, Jan Suraaj in one and an independent in another. Later, the display shows the NDA ahead in four of six seats with trends available. Those snapshots are not a complete final result.

The anchor also reports an early advantage for RJD candidate Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Singh over BJP candidate Naval Kishore Yadav in the Patna teacher constituency, and an independent, Rahul Raj, leading in Saran. A voter interviewed outside a Patna counting center predicts a substantial Jan Suraaj victory in the graduate contest, but that is his expectation, not an announced outcome.

Alongside the party interviews, the broadcast explains the majority threshold for a first-preference victory. Later footage moves inside a Tirhut counting hall, where counting agents argue over doubtful ballots. An official says disputed papers will come to his table for a decision in their presence.

Near the end of the hour, politician Pappu Yadav criticizes what he describes as the influence of money and mafia power in these elections, shifting the coverage from seat tallies to objections about how the contests are fought.