In the Bihar Legislative Council elections, not a single sitting MLC could save his seat from four teachers' constituencies.
The results of three out of four graduate election seats have come. BJP candidate Sarvesh Kumar is leading in Darbhanga graduate seat. No result has been found in the counting of first preference votes for Darbhanga graduate seat.
In these results, Naval Kishore Yadav's 30 year old fort on Patna teacher seat collapsed.
BJP's Naval Kishore was defeated by RJD's Sanjeev Kumar. Naval Kishore Yadav, who was once in RJD, had joined BJP just before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Neeraj Kumar was successful in capturing the hot seat of this election i.e. Patna Graduate. JDU's Neeraj Kumar has fourth consecutive victory from this seat. Anuj Singh, the candidate supported by Mokama MLA Anant Singh, stood third.
After the victory of Prashant Kishore in Bankipur by-election, Jansuraj has also entered the Legislative Council.
Jansuraj candidate Suresh Prasad Rai has defeated Madan Mohan Jha of Congress from Darbhanga teachers seat. Meanwhile, Saran teacher seat has been won by rebel BJP candidate Rahul Raj by contesting as an independent.
If we look party wise on eight seats, this time BJP has won two, RJD one, JDU one, Jansuraj one and independent two.
In the year 2020, when elections were held on these seats, BJP won two, JDU one, CPI one, Congress one and independent candidates won three seats.
While the NDA alliance fought unitedly in this election, there was disunity in the grand alliance.
Till the time of writing the report, counting of Darbhanga graduates is going on. However, many leaders of BJP and JDU have already congratulated Darbhanga graduate BJP candidate Sarvesh Kumar.
This election was for eight seats of the 75-member Bihar Legislative Council.
There were four seats for teacher election and four seats for graduate election. Patna Graduate, Patna Teacher, Darbhanga Graduate, Darbhanga Teacher, Tirhut Graduate, Tirhut Teacher, Saran Teacher and Kosi Graduate.
Neeraj Kumar (JDU) from Patna graduate, Sanjeev Kumar (RJD) from Patna teacher, Suresh Prasad Rai (Jansuraj) from Darbhanga teacher, Vanshidhar Brajwasi (independent) from Tirhut graduate, NK Yadav (BJP) from Kosi teacher, Narendra Prasad Singh (BJP) from Tirhut teacher and Rahul Raj (independent) from Saran teacher have won.
In this election, most of the attention was on Patna graduate seat. JDU's Neeraj Kumar won from this seat.
He got 19,930 votes, at second place was RJD's Dilip Kumar with 15,275 votes and at third place was Anuj Singh of Jansuraj, who got 11,278 votes.
Anuj Singh came into limelight due to his support of Mokama MLA Anant Singh.
The conflict between Neeraj Kumar, resident of Moldiyar Tola of Mokama, and Anant Singh of Nadwa village, about 25 kilometers from Moldiyar, is old.
The starting point of this conflict is considered to be the year 2015 when independent Anant Singh and JDU candidate Neeraj Kumar were face to face in the assembly elections.
Even in the Legislative Council elections, Neeraj Kumar and Anant Singh kept attacking each other personally. The responsibility of resolving the dispute between the two was handed over to party MP and Union Minister Lalan Singh but things did not work out.
After this, JDU showed the way out of the party to Anant Singh and his wife Neelam Devi.
The matter did not stop there, Neelam Devi was shown the way out of the State Level Implementation Committee. Also, the Building Construction Department has ordered Neelam Devi to vacate the government residence in Patna by 25th November.
Senior journalist Pushyamitra tells BBC News Hindi, "There was a stir in the media regarding Anant Singh's entry in this election, but we have to keep in mind that these are different from the assembly elections. Its voter list is prepared almost a year in advance. For example, the notice for the recently held elections was issued only in September 2025. The more active the candidate is in the process of preparing the voter list, the more benefit he gets in the elections. As Neeraj Kumar got."
While JDU was successful in saving its seat in Patna graduate seat, Naval Kishore Yadav lost from Patna teacher seat.
Naval Kishore Yadav, who was vocal on the issue of teachers in the Legislative Council, had been occupying this seat for the last three decades. He has earlier won this seat on the symbols of RJD and BJP.
On the initiative of BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi, Naval Kishore Yadav left RJD and joined BJP in February 2014.
Naval Kishore Yadav was defeated by RJD candidate Sanjeev Kumar by more than one thousand votes.
Sanjeev Kumar, who was once in JDU, joined RJD in the year 2025. He has been MLA from Parbatta of Khagaria. His father Ramanand Prasad Singh was also a JDU MLA from Parbatta.
On this victory of Sanjeev Kumar, a doctor by profession, senior journalist Arvind Sharma says, "BJP's ground has started slipping in Bihar. PK's victory in the Bankipur by-election was a warning. BJP will have to take it seriously otherwise each and every one of its forts will continue to collapse. BJP's crisis is not the opposition but its own self-confidence. You see, within two months, Bihar BJP has got two blows."
It is important here that BJP had been winning the Bankipur seat in the Assembly whereas Naval Kishore Yadav has also won from Patna Teacher's seat as an RJD candidate.
This victory has instilled enthusiasm in the party.
RJD spokesperson Chittaranjan Gagan says, "BJP has lost Patna Teacher and in Patna Graduate also it has given a good fight to RJD candidate Dilip Kumar. This is the situation when BJP and JDU are using all the government machinery. BJP's defeat in Bankipur and Patna Teacher indicates that their fort of lies is collapsing."
Apart from Patna teacher and graduate, the results of Saran teacher and Darbhanga teacher were also interesting.
Jansuraj has opened his account in the Legislative Council from Darbhanga teacher seat. Party candidate Suresh Prasad has defeated Madan Mohan Jha of Congress on this seat.
Suresh Prasad Rai, a teacher by profession, has contested the elections by taking VRS from his job. In the year 2020 also, he had contested elections from Darbhanga teacher seat on BJP ticket but Madan Mohan Jha defeated him.
Madan Mohan Jha has been MLC from this seat twice. He is a prominent Brahmin face in Bihar Congress and has also been the state president.
Suresh Rai, originally from Samastipur, told BBC News Hindi, "Our continuous struggle on this seat has paid off. Now that we have won, our priority will be to implement the Seventh Pay Commission for teachers, restore old pensions and stop the attacks on the autonomy of the university. The interest of teachers will be paramount."
Whereas from Saran Teacher seat, independent Rahul Raj defeated JDU's Anand Pushkar. Rahul Raj, who was in BJP, rebelled and contested this election as an independent.
Rahul Raj told the local media, "The preparation for this election is not done in one or one and a half months like the assembly elections. The publication of the voter list for this election, which was done a year ago, is the final preparation. I did this work continuously. But at the last moment, I gave the ticket to a person who had come from CPI to JDU. The workers had seen my hard work. In fact, the teachers helped me by donating Rs 5.5 lakh."
However, BJP has denied the allegations of rigging. BJP's media head Danish Iqbal said that earlier the opposition used to cry about EVMs, these elections were conducted through ballot paper.
In fact, if we look at this election, all the sitting MLCs lost their elections from teacher constituencies.
In fact, teachers were unhappy with their representatives on many issues. A major reason for which was the non-implementation of the seventh pay scale.
On October 2, teachers had also demonstrated regarding this at Gardnibagh protest site in Patna.
State spokesperson of Bihar State Teachers Association (Gopgut) Ashwini Pandey tells BBC News Hindi, "This is the first time that elections have been held on the issue of teachers. Every time their issues were taken on the backfoot. In Bihar, everyone from peon to secretary is taking advantage of the seventh pay scale, but six lakh teachers who have been declared state employees are not getting the benefit. In such a situation, the defeat of the sitting MLC on the teacher's seat is a warning to the representatives that our representatives should work in the interest of teachers. Will happen."
On this question, journalist Pushyamitra says, "There will be no impact on the health of the government, but the politics within the parties or alliance will be affected. Like BJP may introspect, the fight for number two in JDU will intensify, Anant Singh's future may be decided and if we talk about the opposition, Jansuraj is in the process of creating a new space in the opposition, which has been given momentum by this victory."
BJP says that this election has proved that the intellectual society of the state is with the party.
BJP media head Danish Iqbal told BBC News Hindi, "BJP has performed well in this election. NDA has won five seats. We will win the Darbhanga graduate seat and Rahul Raj from Saran teacher is from our party. This victory has shown that the intellectual society of Bihar is with us. Now Tejashwi is talking about rigging but his party's Sanjeev Kumar has also won. Earlier, Tejashwi used to cry about EVMs, but now The election was conducted by ballot."
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On the other hand, JDU spokesperson Anjum Ara says that the opposition has got into the habit of playing the victim card.
Speaking to BBC News Hindi, he said, "RJD and Congress need to introspect. Any leader should honestly and critically evaluate the votes received from the public. If the opposition does not do this, then one day it will end. This result is the result of the wonderful work done by our government for the teachers."
