Ashwini Kumar Choubey won the Lok Sabha seat in 2014 while his party, the BJP, won power at the Centre. Singh had won from Buxar in 2009, when the UPA formed the government at the Centre for the second time in a row. Buxar is part of the famed “rice bowl” (paddy producing region) of Bihar, and the Ganga is its lifeline. But scratch the surface and anger, frustration, and the willingness to slug it out surface. “Choubey won from Buxar.

Source: The Telegraph May 17, 2019 02:26 UTC