Mokama Election Results: NDA candidate Anant Kumar Singh wins in Mokama — from jail

NDA nominee and JD(U) candidate Anant Kumar Singh won from Mokama constituency, defeating RJD’s Veena Devi by more than 28,206 votes in the Bihar Assembly elections 2025. The gangster-turned-politician is currently in jail, after being arrested for the murder of Jan Suraaj Party poll worker Dular Chand Yadav in the early hours of November 2, 2025.

Mr. Singh bagged 91,416 votes, while the RJD nominee secured 63,210 votes.

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Yadav had died on October 30 while campaigning for Piyush Priyadarshi, the Jan Suraaj Party candidate for the Mokama constituency. According to Yadav’s post-mortem report, he died of cardiorespiratory failure due to shock caused by injury to the heart and lungs by a hard and blunt substance, Kartikeya Sharma, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Patna, had said. The incident had taken place in the Mokama Taal area, close to the Bhadaur and Ghoswari police stations.

Mr. Singh, a gangster-turned-politician, has reportedly been under the scanner since then. The ex-MLA was picked up by police from his house in Barh, around 200 kilometres from the State capital Patna. Two others, Manikant Thakur and Ranjeet Ram, who were reportedly present during the incident, have also been arrested.

When asked about the killing of Yadav, Mr. Singh had admitted to a clash between his supporters and the deceased, but also sought to put the blame on Suraj Bhan, his old rival in the underworld and local politics, whose wife Veena Devi is contesting the seat on an RJD ticket.

Mr. Singh has previously been convicted for the possession of weapons in 2022, resulting in his disqualification as MLA, after holding the seat since 2005 as an RJD member. He switched to the JD(U) in 2024. His wife Neelam Devi currently represents the Mokama seat. Mr. Singh has also been booked for model code of conduct violations during his campaigning for the Bihar Assembly elections, for reportedly moving around in large cavalcades.