Expelled Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tej Pratap Yadav lost from the Mahua constituency, the Election Commission data said on Friday.

The Janshakti Janata Dal leader finished in the third place with 35,703 votes.

Sanjay Kumar Singh of the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), a part of the ruling National Democratic Alliance in the state, won the seat with 87,641 votes.

The Rashtriya Janata Dal candidate Mukesh Kumar Raushan was placed second with 42,644 votes.

Tej Pratap Yadav, a former state minister and the estranged son of RJD founder Lalu Prasad Yadav, was expelled by his father from the party in May for six years for “ignoring moral values” in his personal life.

Lalu Prasad Yadav had said that Tej Pratap Yadav’s public conduct was not in line with his family’s values. “From now on, he will have no role in the party or family,” the RJD chief had said on social media.

This came after a controversy erupted surrounding a post from Tej Pratap Yadav’s Facebook profile, which featured a photo of him with a woman named Anushka Yadav. The post, which was later deleted, said that she and the former state minister had been in a relationship for 12 years.

Several social media users referred to Tej Pratap’s marriage to Aishwarya Rai, daughter of former Bihar minister Chandrika Rai, in May 2018, and asked why he married her if he was already in a relationship with another woman at the time.

The two separated just months after getting married, and their divorce proceedings are underway in a Patna court.

At the time, Tej Pratap Yadav claimed that his social media profiles had been hacked, and that his photographs had been “wrongly edited to harass and defame me and my family members”. He urged his well-wishers and followers not to “pay heed to rumours”.

In September, Tej Pratap Yadav founded the Janshakti Janata Dal.

The party had contested the Assembly elections on 44 seats, including Mahua.

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