Alinagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)



Alinagar' is an assembly constituency in Darbhanga district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 81 Alinagar is composed of the following: Alinagar, Tardih, Motipur Panchayat "Earlier Antour Panchayat and Ghanshyampur community development blocks.
Alinagar is part of No. 14 Darbhanga.

History of Alinagar block

Earlier Alnagar was under Benipur block, since administrative block was far from public reach and due to limited availability of transportation for the people of the village in Alinagar, it was difficult for the public to access the administrative block easily. Then there was a formation of Alinagar block which is under Benipur division. Then have crafted new panchayat and dissolved some of the old panchayat and village under new block.
New panchayat and village are - Alinagar, Tardih, Motipur Panchayat "Earlier Antour Panchayat  and Ghanshyampur
While forming Alinagar block, they have dissolved Antour panchayat which was having , Motipur, Balha and Nandapati village in it. Now Antour is part off Motipur panchayat which is new and come into force after dissolving Antour panchayat. Balha and Nandapati is part of benipur division. 
After formation of new block Alinagar, it becomes difficult for people in the village Antour to access the Administrative block in Alinagar since it is in the neighbourhood of Benipur division. And the nearest railway station is Benipur which is.3 KM from Antour village and administrative blocks of benipur is 2 KM from village Antour and new administrative block for Antour which is Alinagar is 10 KM from village Antour in the opposite direction of the main market which is in Benipur.

Election results

In the 2010 state assembly elections, Abdul Bari Siddiqui of RJD won the newly created Alinagar assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Prabhakar Choudhary of JD.