Thakur is one of several 25-year-olds contesting this polls, alongside Sonu Kumar from Goh, Naveen Kumar and Amrita Soni from Batnaha, Kundan Kumar from Sheikhpura, Shambhu Babu from Supaul, and Rajkumar Sada from Simri Bakhtiarpur. Until now, the youngest MLA in the state was independent candidate Tauseef Alam, elected at 26 in 2005, followed by the RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav, who entered the Assembly at the same age in 2015.Her election affidavit shows assets of nearly Rs 4 crore, with her annual income rising from Rs 12.02 lakh to Rs 28.67 lakh over the past five years. She owns gold worth Rs 53 lakh, keeps Rs 1.8 lakh in cash, and holds a range of mutual fund investments across major schemes.Alinagar has traditionally been an RJD stronghold, long represented by veteran Abdul Bari Siddiqui, who won seven times before stepping aside after his 2015 victory. In 2020, the seat went to VIP’s Mishri Lal Yadav on a Vikassheel Insaan Party ticket. He joined the BJP after winning by a narrow margin of just over 3,000 votes.In May 2025, he was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in a 2019 criminal case by the MP–MLA court in Darbhanga.The BJP fielded Thakur after denying ticket to sitting MLA Mishri Lal Yadav, who quit the party on 11 October.
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