Meenapur Assembly Elections 2025: RJD has been winning the Meenapur seat, which has Yadav and Muslim vote banks, twice in a row. A triangular contest was seen in 2020. Now the question is whether RJD will score a hat-trick in 2025 or the opposition will counterattack?
Minapur Assembly Election 2025: Minapur Vidhan Sabha is an important and rural dominated seat of Muzaffarpur district. It comes under Vaishali Lok Sabha constituency and the electoral history here has been very interesting. In the last 25 years, RJD has registered the maximum victory on this seat. Whereas JDU and BJP have also won here once each. Now again the big question in 2025 is whether RJD will be able to win for the third consecutive time or the opposition will show some charisma.
2010: JDU’s victory
In 2010, in Meenapur, JDU’s Dinesh Prasad secured 42,286 votes and defeated RJD’s Rajiv Kumar alias Munna Yadav by 5,402 votes. Dinesh Prasad got a total of 34% votes while RJD could get only 30% votes.
2015: RJD overthrow
RJD made a spectacular comeback in 2015. This time Rajiv Kumar alias Munna Yadav registered a big victory by securing 80,790 votes. He defeated BJP candidate Ajay Kumar by 23,940 votes. Munna Yadav got a total of 50% votes, while Ajay Kumar got 35% votes.
2020: RJD wins even in triangular contest
The 2020 election was very exciting. This time the contest became triangular between RJD, JDU and LJP. RJD’s Rajeev Kumar (Munna Yadav) secured 60,018 votes. JDU’s Manoj Kumar got 44,506 votes and LJP’s Ajay Kumar got 43,496 votes. Munna Yadav won by a margin of 15,512 votes. In vote share, RJD got 33.5%, JDU got 24.8% and LJP got 24.2%.
Note: RJD leader Rajiv Kumar is 12th pass. Five criminal cases are registered against him. His total assets are around Rs 2 crore and he also has outstanding dues of more than Rs 50 lakh.
Caste equation of Meenapur assembly constituency
The number of Yadav and Muslim voters is decisive in Meenapur seat. Yadavs traditionally remain with RJD while Muslim votes also lean towards the Grand Alliance. The voters of Kushwaha community are dominant here and in 2020, both JDU and LJP had divided the votes by fielding candidates from this community. Scheduled Caste voters are 16.95% and Muslim voters are about 10%. This voting trend will play an important role in 2025 also.
Local issues of Meenapur assembly constituency
Roads, education, health and migration are big issues in Meenapur assembly constituency. Being a rural area, farmers’ problems and unemployment always remain in the electoral debate.
Meenapur assembly constituency contest in 2025
In the 2025 elections, RJD will go for the third consecutive victory. Both BJP and JDU are working on the strategy to break the Yadav-Muslim equation. It will also be interesting to see from which party Ajay Kumar (Kushwaha Samaj) comes into the fray, because his vote bank can change the election results.