India, Nov. 14 -- In a closely fought contest, Kedar Prasad Gupta of the Bharatiya Janata Party is currently trailing Sunil Kumar Suman of the Rashtriya Janata Dal in the Kurhani constituency of Muzaffarpur in the assembly polls in Bihar. Gupta is trailing Suman by a narrow margin of 2,169 votes, securing 42,502 votes.

The race has emerged as a tight battle between the two main contenders, indicated ECI data, while independent candidate Dharmendra Kumar lagged far behind the two, with a total of 2,796 votes.

The BJP placed it's bet on Gupta for a high stakes contest in Kurhani three years after he won the seat for the BJP in December 2022 during a crucial by-election.

After losing to Rashtriya Janata Dal's Amit Kumar Sahani in 2020 Bih...