5 months after his Saptari defeat, Bara sends Upendra Yadav to Parliament

Yadav emerges victorious in bypolls beating the Janamat hopeful who was riding on the popularity wave of CK Raut.

At first blush, the byelection in Bara-2 was a straight shootout between Janata Samajbadi Party chair Upendra Yadav and Janamat Party’s candidate Shiv Chandra Kushwaha. But dig a little and it was so much more, as Madhesh observers had