Kumar Ashish from Madhepura
Lok Sabha Elections The matter is of 1999 parliamentary elections. The eyes of the entire country were fixed on Madhepura seat of Lok Sabha. The reason was the election of two veteran leaders from Mandal politics, Sharad Yadav and Lalu Prasad. Then Sharad Yadav was the national president of Janata Dal United (JDU) and Lalu Yadav was the supremo of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). There was a close contest in the elections. Two Yadav stalwarts were face to face in the Yadav dominated area.
When Lalu Yadav entered the election field to defeat Sharad Yadav
Before the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, Sharad Yadav had won the elections from Madhepura twice (1991 and 1996). On the other hand, Lalu Prasad won the elections for the first time from Madhepura in 1998. In the 1998 elections, Lalu Prasad snatched the Madhepura seat from Sharad Yadav, the two-time winner. Elections were held again after a year. This time too, Lalu Prasad had entered the election field with full force to defeat Sharad Yadav. The slogan of outsider-insider echoed in the Yadav dominated area. Lalu Prasad was from Bihar and Sharad Yadav was from Madhya Pradesh.
Allegations of election irregularities and then…
It is said that Sharad Yadav had become dejected and disappointed after the elections. He had accepted that it was impossible for him to win this time. After voting, Sharad Yadav accused Lalu Prasad of huge irregularities in the elections. Sharad Yadav sat on a dharna outside the counting venue demanding cancellation of the elections. Not only this, he also made the party leaders and workers sit on strike in front of the Election Commission offices in Patna and Delhi. The news of Sharad Yadav sitting on strike spread across the country.
Lalu Yadav lost the election
When the election results started coming on the day of counting of votes, the eyes of the entire country were fixed on the results of Madhepura. The election results were finally announced. Sharad Yadav was declared the winner. In this election, Sharad Yadav got 328761 (49.7%) votes, while Lalu Prasad got 298441 (45.2%) votes. Thus, in the second election clash with Lalu Yadav, Sharad Yadav managed to reach Delhi by defeating him by 30,320 votes. The voters of Madhepura expressed confidence in the Yadav stalwart of Madhya Pradesh instead of the Yadav stalwart of Bihar.
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