Bihar elections 2025: Anant Singh is arrested for the death of Dular Chand Yadav during an argument with Jan Suraaj followers. The JD(U) candidate from Mokama is also detained. Days before the November elections, Patna Police arrest three people, including the primary suspect, thanks to video evidence. Prashant Kishor's response to the NDA scandal.
On November 1, 2025, a midnight attack that captured one of the state's most infamous poll warriors assaulted Mokama just as the floodwaters in the Barh region of Bihar had barely disappeared. In an election-eve conflict, the barrel-chested JD(U) candidate and self-described "Sher-e-Mokama," Anant Singh, was thrown out of his hiding in a flood-prone pocket in Bedhna village and charged with cold-blooded murder. The victim? A regular convoy was converted into a disaster last week when Dular Chand Yadav, a strong supporter of Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj Party, was shot dead. Witness accounts and shaky video clips were used by Patna's police to piece together the blood. Singh's firm hold on this NDA defender now felt like a house of cards dangerously close to the edge of the Ganges.
Battle in the Convoy: From Triple Arrest to Tartar the Last
In the Mokama assembly constituency, a JD(U) stronghold where Singh's name is still heard like thunder, it began as a powder bomb on a rain-soaked section close to Tartar hamlet. In a deadly dance, two convoys—one belonging to JD(U) and the other to Jan Suraaj's mixed crew—that were running for greenhorn Priyadarshi Piyush—Dular Chand's nephew and Kishor's wildcard pick—came together. At an easily understood Saturday briefing, Patna SSP Kartikeya Sharma described how "a clash broke out between the two groups," his voice clipped like a case file snap. Dular Chand, a firebrand in his 50s who had had too many encounters with Singh, slumped, dead in the mud as bullets flew and screams rang out through the darkness.
Door-knocks for witness testimony, CCTV gathered from surrounding stores, and cell film from a villager's unsteady phone that captured the turmoil in brutal clarity were all part of the quick, surgical investigation. "Based on the evidence, Anant Singh has been arrested from Bedhna village in the flood area," Sharma disclosed without clarification. The most important component was the 61-year-old strongman, who was reportedly there at the scene and pulling triggers or strings. He was no stranger to the clash (weapons hauls, blasts in his rap sheet). Manikant Thakur and Ranjeet Ram, two low-level policemen identified in the video as convoy crashers, were in detention next to him. As the clock runs out for the first-phase elections on November 6, all three have been placed under judicial remand after being charged with murder under IPC 302.
"Investigation has revealed that Anant Singh, the main accused, was present when the incident occurred." Sharma was unapologetic about his motivation. This smells like bloody territory in Mokama's tunnel, where Singh's victory in 2020 was a noisemaker. A local muscle for Jan Suraaj's anti-establishment shout, Dular Chand had been outspoken about Singh's "goonda raj," the villagers whisper over nightly bidi puffs. The conflict? Jan Suraaj is complaining about a more contrived showdown with less random noise: Kishor called at X, "Election terror by NDA goons," and threatened "justice or jihad."
Poll Risk: NDA's Pain in Mokama Ahead of Votes
Nothing hurts more than timing. Bihar's 243 seats are divided into seven phases between November 6 and November 20. Mokama sits in the November 13 phase, which is a swing seat where Nitish Kumar's sushasan shine and Singh's JD(U) muscle meet. Was he arrested? NDA's math, which was already failing following the JDU's removal of rebels, takes a serious hit. The top leadership of the BJP remained silent on Saturday, but rumors from the war rooms in Patna suggest a rush: Use a stand-in or give the seat to independents? "NDA's thug bandhan exposed—blood on ballots!" came an angry cry from Congressman Tariq Anwar.
Singh's followers, who are loyalists with faded khaki tattoos, perceive it as a frame-up. A Bedhna relative argued, "Sher can't be caged by videos," as police searched the yard. However, it's tiredness for Mokama's tired farmers chasing floods, young people pursuing jobs in the Gulf. Steam rose like unanswered prayers as a chaiwala near the crime scene laughed, "Clashes every election; when jobs come?"
Bedhna's streets were alive with rumors as Sunday morning above the diaras (river islands). Will Singh's digs from Beur jail spark his Teflon image or spark a wave of sympathy? This arrest is a referendum on Bihar's harsh electoral strategy, and ECI is focused on reducing violence. It holds its breath, Mokama. What do you think? Was it a poll ploy or justice served? REAL BREAKING NEWS is on the ground.
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