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Samajwadi candidate wins Varanasi teachers' seat, report says

The vote totals presented by anchor Syed Suhail put Lal Bihari almost 4,900 votes ahead of the BJP candidate.

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Lal Bihari, the Samajwadi Party candidate for a Varanasi teachers' constituency, has won a seat in Uttar Pradesh's Legislative Council, according to India's Hindi-language news channel NDTV India.

Anchor Syed Suhail presents the competing tallies in a brief studio report: 10,958 votes for Lal Bihari and 6,060 for the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. Those totals imply a margin of almost 4,900 votes. The video's headline emphasizes a victory by four thousand votes rather than one or two thousand, while its on-screen graphic describes the margin as more than four thousand.

This is a teachers' constituency election for the state legislature's upper house, not a general parliamentary election. Such constituencies have a restricted electorate of eligible teachers rather than all local voters.

The clip shows photographs of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Samajwadi leader Akhilesh Yadav alongside the result, but its focus remains the Varanasi tally; it does not establish the statewide outcome.