Five MLAs, three MLCs among 40 elected to Lok Sabha from Bihar

One-fifth of the 40 MPs elected to the 17th Lok Sabha from Bihar are sitting members of the bicameral legislature in the state three of them being ministers in the Nitish Kumar cabinet.

Of these eight MPs, five are members of the Assembly, the other three of the legislative council.

Two of the MLCs - JD(U)'s Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan and LJP's Pashupati Kumar Paras - are members of the state cabinet.

While Lalan Singh has secured the Munger, Paras has retained for the party the Hajipur (SC) constituency, previously represented by his brother and LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan.

Their cabinet colleague Dinesh Chandra Yadav, a JD(U) MLA from Simari Bakhtiyarpur in Saharsa district, has won from Madhepura, where two former MPs - RJD's Sharad Yadav and Jan Adhikar Party's Pappu Yadav - bit the dust.

Chandeshwar Prasad Chandravanshi, another JD(U) MLC, won the Jehanabad seat for his party though he also earned the unenviable distinction of having bagged his seat with the ...