Alinagar Assembly constituency

Vidhan Sabha constituency

Alinagar
Constituency No. 81 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Darbhanga
LS constituency	Darbhanga
Established	2008
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly

Incumbent Aditya Pratap Singh
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2020
Preceded by	Abdul Bari Siddiqui, RJD

Alinagar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Darbhanga district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 81 Alinagar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Alinagar, Tardih, Motipur Panchayat "Earlier Antour Panchayat (Antour, Motipur, Andauli) and Ghanshyampur community development blocks.^[1]

Alinagar Assembly constituency is part of No. 14 Darbhanga (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

History of Alinagar block

Earlier Alnagar was under Benipur block, since administrative block was far from public reach and due to limited availability of transportation for the people of the village in Alinagar, it was difficult for the public to access the administrative block easily. Then there was a formation of Alinagar block which is under Benipur division. Then have crafted new panchayat and dissolved some of the old panchayat and village under new block.

New panchayat and village are - Alinagar, Tardih, Motipur Panchayat "Earlier Antour Panchayat (Antour, Motipur, Andauli) and Ghanshyampur

While forming Alinagar block, they have dissolved Antour panchayat which was having [Antour], Motipur, Balha and Nandapati village in it. Now Antour is part of Motipur panchayat which is new and came into force after dissolving Antour panchayat. Balha and Nandapati is part of Benipur division.

After formation of new block Alinagar, it becomes difficult for people in the village Antour to access the Administrative block in Alinagar since it is in the neighbourhood of Benipur division. And the nearest railway station is Benipur which is .3 km from Antour village and administrative blocks of Benipur are 2 km from village Antour and new administrative block for Antour which is Alinagar is 10 km from village Antour in the opposite direction of the main market which is in Benipur.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Name^[2]
Until 2008: Constituency did not exist
2010	Abdul Bari Siddiqui	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2015	Abdul Bari Siddiqui	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Aditya Pratap Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Alinagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Aditya Pratap Singh	61,082	38.62
	RJD	Binod Mishra	57,981	36.66
	JAP(L)	Sanjay Kumar Singh	9,737	6.16
	LJP	Raj Kumar Jha	8,850	5.60
	Independent	Fakira Paswan	4,468	2.83
	NOTA	None of the above	2,941	1.86
Majority			3,101
Turnout
Registered electors				^[3]
	VIP gain from RJD		Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Alinagar^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	RJD	Abdul Bari Siddiqui	67,461	48.22
	BJP	Mishri Lal Yadav	54,001	38.60
Turnout			139,898	55.62
Registered electors			251,508

References

^ ^a ^b "Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India" (PDF). Schedule VI Bihar, Part A – Assembly constituencies, Part B – Parliamentary constituencies. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
^ "Alinagar Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
^ "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
^ Bihar Assembly Election 2015