The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday released a second list of 12 candidates for Bihar Assembly Election, naming singer Maithili Thakur as a candidate from Alinagar.
The list also names Ram Chandra Prasad from Hayaghat, Vinay Kumar Singh from Sonepur, Anand Mishra, an IPS, from Buxar and Siyaram Singh from Barh.
Birendra Kumar and Mahesh Paswan have been named candidates from Rosera and Agiaon seats. Meanwhile, Ranjan Kumar will contest from Muzaffarpur and Subhash Singh from Gopalganj seat.
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The fresh list of candidates came a day after the BJP announced the first list of 71 candidates, naming Deputy chief minister Samrat Choudhary from Tarapur, deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha from Lakhisarai.
{{/usCountry}}The fresh list of candidates came a day after the BJP announced the first list of 71 candidates, naming Deputy chief minister Samrat Choudhary from Tarapur, deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha from Lakhisarai.
{{/usCountry}}With the fresh list, the BJP has so far announced a total of 83 candidates out of the 101 seats for the Bihar assembly polls, scheduled next month.
Earlier today, chief minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) also released its first list of 57 candidates for the assembly elections, naming Umesh Khushwaha for Mahanar, Shravan Kumar for Nalanda, and Sunil Kumar for Bhore.
The BJP's full list of candidates as of October 15 is as follows:
Bettiah - Renu Devi
Raxaul -Pramod Kumar Sinha
Pipra - Shyambabu Prasad Yadav
Madhuban -Rana Randhir Singh
Motihari -Pramod Kumar
Dhaka - Pawan Jaiswal
Riga - Baidyanath Prasad
Bathnaha (SC) - Anil Kumar Ram
Parihar - Gayatri Devi
Sitamarhi - Sunil Kumar Pintu
Benipatti - Vinod Narayan Jha
Khajauli - Arun Shankar Prasad
Bisfi - Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul
Rajnagar (SC) - Sujeet Paswan
Jhanjharpur - Nitish Mishra
Chhatapur - Neeraj Kumar Singh Bablu
Narpatganj - Devanti Yadav
Forbesganj - Vidya Sagar Keshri
Sikti - Vijay Kumar Mandal
Kishanganj - Sweety Singh
Banmankhi (SC) - Krishna Kumar Rishi
Purnia - Vijay Kumar Khemka
Katihar - Tarkishore Prasad
Pranpur - Nisha Singh
Korha (SC) - Kavita Devi
Saharsa - Alok Ranjan Jha
Gaura Bauram - Sujit Kumar Singh
Darbhanga - Sanjay Saraogi
Keoti - Murari Mohan Jha
Jale - Jibesh Kumar Mishra
Aurai - Rama Nishad
Kurhani - Kedar Prasad Gupta
Baruraj - Arun Kumar Singh
Sahebganj - Raju Kumar Singh
Baikunthpur - Mithilesh Tiwari
Siwan - Mangal Pandey
Daraundha - Kanjeet Singh
Goriyakothi - Devesh Kant Singh
Taraiya - Janak Singh
Amnour - Krishan Kumar Mantoo
Hajipur - Awadhesh Singh
Lalganj - Sanjay Kumar Singh
Patepur (SC) - Lakhendra Kumar Raushan
Mohiuddinnagar - Rajesh Kumar Singh
Bachhwara - Surendra Mehta
Teghra - Rajnish Kumar
Begusarai - Kundan Kumar
Bhagalpur - Rohit Pandey
Banka - Ram Narayan Mandal
Katoria (ST) - Puran Lal Tudu
Tarapur - Samrat Chaudhary
Munger - Kumar Pranay
Lakhisarai - Vijay Kumar Sinha
Biharsharif- Dr Sunil Kumar
Digha - Sanjiv Chaurasia
Bankipur - Nitin Nabin
Kumhrar - Sanjay Gupta
Patna Sahib - Ratnesh Kushwaha
Danapur - Ramkripal Yadav
Bikram - Siddharth Saurav
Barhara - Raghvendra Pratap Singh
Arrah - Sanjay Singh "Tiger"
Tarari - Vishal Prashant
Arwal - Manoj Sharma
Aurangabad - Trivikram Singh
Gurua - Upendra Dangi
Gaya Town- Dr Prem Kumar
Wazirganj - Birendra Singh
Hisua - Anil Singh
Warsaliganj - Aruna Devi
Jamui- Shreyasi Singh
Alinagar- Maithili Thakur
Hayaghat- Ram Chandra Prasad
Muzaffarpur- Ranjan Kumar
Minapur- Rupak Kumar
Gopalganj- Subhash Singh
Banipur- Kedar Nath Singh
Chhapra- Chhoti Kumari
Sonepur- Vinay Kumar Singh
Barh- Suryan Singh
Agiaon- Mahesh Paswan
Shahpur- Rakesh Ojha
Buxar- Anand Mishra, IPS
The ruling NDA has arrived on a seat-sharing agreement on Sunday. The BJP and JD(U) will contest 101 seats each, while Chirag Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party will contest 29 seats. The Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) and Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) will contest six seats each.
The polling for the 243-seat Bihar Assembly is scheduled to take place on November 6 and November 11, and votes will be counted on November 14.