In Ram Narayan Yadav vs. Nitish Mishra & Ors.(2026), Patna High Court has admitted the election petition. The case came up for hearing on August 19, 2026 before Justice Ashok Kumar Pandey. Coincidentally, Jagannath Mishra, Nitish Mishra's father who was once the face of Congress party in Bihar and who had become an admirer of the
BJP in his final years, had departed due to cancer on August 19, 2019. Nitish Mishra was appointed the minister of urban development & housing and the information technology on May 7, 2026.
Nitish Mishra has filed a I.A. questioning its maintainability.
Returning Officer of Jhanjharpur has filed his written statement.
Advocate Dr. Gopal Krishna has filed an election petition on behalf of
Ram Narayan Yadav, one of the candidates of the Communist Party of India
(CPI). The result of the 2025 Bihar Assembly election was announced on
November 14, 2025. Under Sections 80, 80A and 81 of the Representation
of the People Act, 1951 there is a provision to challenge the validity
of any election, if there is any violation of specified rules through
election petition. The High Court has accepted the petition. Nitish
Mishra from BJP has failed to disclose in his election affidavit that
there is a FIR pending against him.
Nitish Mishra, the respondent and the elected MLA was required to disclose information about all the pending criminal cases, at whatever stages they are pending before any court. It is not that only such cases will be disclosed wherein cognizance has been taken or charges have been framed. Any violation of the 1961 Rules by non-disclosure which is otherwise warranted ; CPI. Supreme Court of India has settled the law in this regard in Meenakshi Natarajan vs. Election Commission of India [W.P.(C) No. 766/2026].
Ram Narayan Yadav who has challenged the election of Nitish Mishra was the candidate fielded by CPI in Bihar Assembly Election 2025.
Nitish Mishra, the respondent and the elected MLA was required to disclose information about all the pending criminal cases, at whatever stages they are pending before any court. It is not that only such cases will be disclosed wherein cognizance has been taken or charges have been framed. Any violation of the 1961 Rules by non-disclosure which is otherwise warranted ; CPI. Supreme Court of India has settled the law in this regard in Meenakshi Natarajan vs. Election Commission of India [W.P.(C) No. 766/2026].
Ram Narayan Yadav who has challenged the election of Nitish Mishra was the candidate fielded by CPI in Bihar Assembly Election 2025.
Earlier, Nitish Mishra was made a minister of the sugarcane department of Bihar in 2005. He was minister of the disaster management
department from 2008 to 2009 and the minister of the rural development
department from 2010 to 2015. In 2024, he was appointed as the industry minister
of Bihar.
Nitish Mishra contested his first election from the Jhanjharpur seat but was defeated. After this election, Jagannath Mishra merged his party with Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party, then joined JDU. Nitish Mishra again contested from the Jhanjharpur seat on a JDU ticket, he defeated RJD's Jagdish Narayan Chaudhary. He had made his political debut with Bihar Jan Congress, the party of Jagannath Mishra, his father. Jagannath Mishra was the brother of Lalit Narayan Mishra, former union railway minister and one of Bihar's most powerful Congress leaders who was assassinated on January 3, 1975. Subsequent to his assassination, Jagannath Mishra became Chief Minister of Bihar on April 11, 1975 at the age of 38. He became Chief Minister for the second time in the year 1980 and for third and last time in the year 1989.
Nitish Mishra contested his first election from the Jhanjharpur seat but was defeated. After this election, Jagannath Mishra merged his party with Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party, then joined JDU. Nitish Mishra again contested from the Jhanjharpur seat on a JDU ticket, he defeated RJD's Jagdish Narayan Chaudhary. He had made his political debut with Bihar Jan Congress, the party of Jagannath Mishra, his father. Jagannath Mishra was the brother of Lalit Narayan Mishra, former union railway minister and one of Bihar's most powerful Congress leaders who was assassinated on January 3, 1975. Subsequent to his assassination, Jagannath Mishra became Chief Minister of Bihar on April 11, 1975 at the age of 38. He became Chief Minister for the second time in the year 1980 and for third and last time in the year 1989.
In 2015, Mishra had left the JDU to join the
BJP with his father, Jagannath Mishra. He faced defeat in the 2015
assembly elections. In 2020, Nitish Mishra was elected MLA again from
Jhanjharpur on a BJP ticket. He was also the Vice President, BJP, Bihar
in 2021.
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