Digha (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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District Patna Created 2008 MLA Sanjiv Chaurasia Founded 2008		State Bihar Party BJP Lok Sabha constituency 30 Patna Sahib Region Bihar

Digha (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Hindi: दीघा विधानसभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of 243 legislative assembly constituencies of the legislative assembly of Bihar. It comes under Patna Sahib (Lok Sabha constituency). It came into existence in 2008 after delimitation. Digha assembly constituency has six panchayats and 21 wards of Patna Municipal Corporation. Digha is Bihar's largest assembly constituency having 400 booths with around 4 lakh voters.In Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 2015, Digha was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.

Overview

Digha comprises:

Gram Panchayat Nakta Diyara, Ward Nos. 1, 2, 3, 6,

Pataliputra Housing Colony (OG) – Ward No. 38 & Digha-Mainpura (OG) Ward No. 39,

Badalpura (OG) Ward No. 40,

Sabazpura (OG) Ward No. 41 & Khalilpura (OG) Ward No. 42 in Patna (MC + OG) of Patna Rural CD Block.

References

Digha (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Wikipedia

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