Bihar Assembly Election Results 2025: BJP candidate Maithili Thakur on Friday described her massive lead in Alinagar constituency as a “dream” as the counting of votes for the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections was underway. At 4.50pm, Maithili Thakur was leading with 8,601 votes against her nearest rival Binod Mishra of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Election Commission of India’s website showed.
If Thakur, who turned 25 last July, wins, the popular singer will become the youngest member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly.
“This is like a dream. People have a lot of expectations from me… This will be my first term as an MLA, and I will do my best for my constituency. I will serve my people as their daughter. I can only see Alinagar now and how I can work with them,” Thakur told the media.
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Trends suggest that the renewed partnership between the JD(U) and the BJP, buoyed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nationwide popularity, is steering the ruling National Democratic Alliance towards a sweeping mandate of over 243 Assembly seats.
The Alinagar seat was won by Mishri Lal Yadav of Vikashil Insan Party in 2020 by a narrow margin against RJD’s Binod Mishra. Yadav, who later moved to the BJP, was disqualified in May this year after a court conviction in an assault case. In October, Yadav resigned from the BJP, calling it “anti-Dalit”.
Who is Maithili Thakur? 5 things about the popular singer:
- Maithili Thakur, a folk singer and bhajan, has more than five million subscribers on YouTube, more than six million followers on Instagram and more than 14 million followers on Facebook – an appeal that cuts across castes and communities, and which the BJP hopes to build on.
- Thakur learned Hindustani classical music from her father Ramesh. In 2023. The Election Commission selected her as their brand ambassador for Madhubani. The following year, the Modi government selected her as Cultural Ambassador of the Year.
- Thakur, who was born in Urain in Madhubani’s Benipati, about two hours from Alinagar, moved to New Delhi when she was about eight years old. The primary goal was to learn music from Ramesh, who taught music at a local school in the capital as well as giving home lessons.
- In 2015, Thakur took admission in Bal Bharti International School in Delhi and graduated from Bharti College. She also participated in Indian Idol Junior, but was eliminated in the second round. Later, she participated in the i-genius Young Singing Stars program and won. She also took second place in the Rising Star program.
- After coming to Delhi, they changed homes 17 times, her mother Bharti told The Indian Express in a 2018 interview. “We could only provide one room, most of which are attached to someone else’s house. My husband’s kindergarten and my children’s kindergarten would disturb people and we would have to move,” Bharti said. Once the kids became famous, “people didn’t mind as much,” she added. In 2017, the family bought a house, and in 2020, they moved to a larger apartment, where they still live.
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