Uncommon ECI Transfer and 2005 Bihar Chakai Precedent
3 min learnPatnaCould 4, 2026 03:15 PM IST
The Election Fee’s order for a repoll in West Bengal’s Falta seat has a virtually two decade-old precedent in Bihar.
Citing “EVM tampering”, the ECI on Saturday ordered that your complete Falta Meeting constituency would go for a repoll on Could 21, with counting slated for Could 24. Whereas holding repolls at some cubicles in a seat is widespread, a recent ballot in your complete constituency is extraordinarily uncommon, ordered solely when widespread systemic fraud is confirmed.
And in such situations, the ballot physique typically goes again to the Chakai Meeting seat in Bihar’s Jamui — a flip seat which noticed not only a repoll but additionally a reversed mandate in 2005.
Chakai is a stronghold of two native heavyweight political dynasties — the households of Late Narendra Singh and Falguni Prasad Yadav. Singh’s father Srikrishna Singh received this seat in 1967 and 1969 polls, when he was fielded by the Sanyukt Socialist Get together. After succeeding his father, Narendra Singh received the seat first as a Congress candidate in 1985, then on a Janata Dal ticket in 1990, and at last as an unbiased in 2000. However, Yadav received the Chakai seat first as an unbiased candidate in 1977 after which on a BJP ticket in 1980 and 1995.
Within the February 2005 Bihar Meeting polls, Chakai noticed a head-on collision between Falguni Prasad Yadav, contesting once more on a BJP seat, and Abhay Singh, the son of bigwig Narendra Singh, who was fielded right here by Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Get together (LJP).
Abhay received the polls with a razor-thin margin of over 4,600 votes. For LJP, it was its greatest present thus far with a complete win of 29 seats within the polls. However inside three months, a repoll was ordered in your complete Chakai seat – one which noticed a flip within the mandate within the favour of BJP’s Yadav with a pointy margin of over 5,000 votes. The ECI’s order right here got here on account of complaints of malpractices within the election by Yadav’s camp. Nonetheless, the repoll was shortly adopted by President’s rule within the state, leading to one other Meeting election in October-November the identical 12 months. Yadav emerged victorious in that ballot, as properly.
It’s the 2005 Chakai repoll which is commonly cited as a historic reference level in Indian electoral historical past. And in Falta’s case too, it was this incident which served as the first precedent for the repoll order.
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Chakai, in the meantime, continues to witness a battle between the 2 households. Narendra’s son Sumit Kumar Singh received again the household’s seat in 2010 as a candidate of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha. In 2015, the citizens went with Yadav’s spouse, Savitri Devi, who fought on an RJD ticket. Sumit took again the seat as an unbiased in 2020, and so did Savitri Devi for the RJD in 2025.
All eyes are actually set on Falta constituency which works to polls on Could 21. As for the remainder of 293 Meeting seats in West Bengal, the result’s anticipated on Monday.
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