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State: Bihar
Constituency: Arrah
Total Votes Polled: 644523
Winner: JD Chandra Deo Prasad Verma 192046
Runner Up: SAP Ram Prasad Singh 151005
Margin: 41041 (6.44%)

Surajdeo Singh, the much-maligned friend of former prime minister Chandra Shekhar and the 'don of Dhanbad', was sent packing when he contested here on a Janata Party in 1991 by the JD's Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav. In 1996, when Yadav contested on a Congress ticket he was sent to the fourth position, some 22,000 votes behind the CPI-ML candidate.

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