patna mathematics teacher bipin kumar who used to prepare students for various competitive examinations was on friday elected as mukhiya of salha panchayat under sahdei bujurg block in vaishali district he defeated his nearest rival by 101 votesa large number of students escorted the newlyelected mukhiya to his home from the counting centre and offered garlands to him the students credited another teacher popularly known as khan sir for bipins victorykhan sir had campaigned for bipin sir in the panchayat election khan sir is very popular among students for his unique and simple method of teaching said rakesh one of the studentsbipin said he would continue to teach the students and also serve the people of the panchayat i decided to enter into electoral politics due to corruption prevailing in the government offices he addedashok yadav nephew of jailed former minister raj ballabh prasad yadav was elected as district board member from nadriganj in nawada district rajballabh is serving sentence in connection with rape of a minor girlhowever luck didnt smile on surti devi samdhin of the bjp mla from riga in sitamarhi district motilal prasad surti who was in the fray from ganeshpur babhanpura panchayat on the post of mukhiya lost to asha devi by 386 votesthe counting of votes for the eighth phase of the panchayat election which was held on november 24 began at 8am amid tight security altogether 92376 candidates were in the fray for 25247 posts in this phaseelectioneering for the ninth phase to be held on november 29 will come to an end at 5pm on saturday