BJP names 71 Bihar candidates, NDA seat allocation talks continue

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday released the first list of 71 candidates for the two-phased Bihar assembly elections on November 6 and 11. The party, however, denied tickets to three sitting MLAs, including assembly Speaker and seven time MLA from Patna Sahib, Nand Kishore Yadav, and changed candidates on 15 seats. Nearly 53 candidates have been retained in the first list.

Deputy chief minister Samrat Choudhary, who is a member of the legislative council, will contest from Tarapur, while another deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha has been retained from Lakhisarai. Sitting MLC and Nitish Kumar-led NDA cabinet member Mangal Pandey will be contesting from the Siwan seat.

The list also includes two former MPs — Ram Kripal Yadav, who lost to Misa Bharti of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) from Danapur, will contest from the same seat; Sunil Kumar Pintu, an ex-Janata Dal (United) MP from Sitamarhi, will fight from the Sitamarhi seat. Pintu had recently re-joined the BJP after spending his initial years in politics in the party.

Two other sitting MLAs — Arun Kumar Sinha (Kumhrar) and Amrendra Pratap Singh (Ara) — have been denied tickets.

Heres the full first list of BJP candidates:

Serial number Assembly Constituency Candidate: 1 Bettiah Smt Renu Devi

2 Raxaul Shri Pramod Kumar Sinha

3 Pipra Shri Shyambabu Prasad Yadav

4 Madhuban Shri Rana Randhir Singh

5 Motihari Shri Pramod Kumar

6 Dhaka Shri Pawan Jaiswal

7 Riga Shri Baidyanath Prasad

8 Bathnaha (SC) Shri Anil Kumar Ram

9 Parihar Smt. Gayatri Devi

10 Sitamarhi Shri Sunil Kumar Pintu

11 Benipatti Shri Vinod Narayan Jha

12 Khajauli Shri Arun Shankar Prasad

13 Bisfi Shri Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul

14 Rajnagar (SC) Shri Sujeet Paswan

15 Jhanjharpur Shri Nitish Mishra

16 Chhatapur Shri Neeraj Kumar Singh Bablu

17 Narpatganj Smt Devanti Yadav

18 Forbesganj Shri Vidya Sagar Keshri

19 Sikti Shri Vijay Kumar Mandal

20 Kishanganj Smt Sweety Singh

21 Banmankhi (SC) Shri Krishna Kumar Rishi

22 Purnia Shri Vijay Kumar Khemka

23 Katihar Shri Tarkishore Prasad

24 Pranpur Smt Nisha Singh

25 Korha (SC) Smt. Kavita Devi

26 Saharsa Shri Alok Ranjan Jha

27 Gaura Bauram Shri Sujit Kumar Singh

28 Darbhanga Shri Sanjay Saraogi

29 Keoti Shri Murari Mohan Jha

30 Jale Shri Jibesh Kumar Mishra

31 Aurai Smt. Rama Nishad

32 Kurhani Shri Kedar Prasad Gupta

33 Baruraj Shri Arun Kumar Singh

34 Sahebganj Shri Raju Kumar Singh

35 Baikunthpur Shri Mithilesh Tiwari

36 Siwan Shri Mangal Pandey

37 Daraundha Shri Karnjeet Singh

38 Goriyakothi Shri Devesh Kant Singh

39 Taraiya Shri Janak Singh

40 Amnour Shri Krishan Kumar Mantoo

41 Hajipur Shri Awadhesh Singh

42 Lalganj Shri Sanjay Kumar Singh

43 Patepur (SC) Shri Lakhendra Kumar Raushan

44 Mohiuddinnagar Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh

45 Bachhwara Shri Surendra Mehta

46 Teghra Shri Rajnish Kumar

47 Begusarai Shri Kundan Kumar

48 Bhagalpur Shri Rohit Pandey

49 Banka Shri Ram Narayan Mandal

50 Katoria (ST) Shri Puran Lal Tudu

51 Tarapur Shri Samrat Chaudhary

52 Munger Shri Kumar Pranay

53 Lakhisarai Shri Vijay Kumar Sinha

54 Biharsharif Dr. Sunil Kumar

55 Digha Shri Sanjiv Chaurasia

56 Bankipur Shri Nitin Nabin

57 Kumhrar Shri Sanjay Gupta

58 Patna Sahib Shri Ratnesh Kushwaha

59 Danapur Shri Ramkripal Yadav

60 Bikram Shri Siddharth Saurav

61 Barhara Shri Raghvendra Pratap Singh

62 Arrah Shri Sanjay Singh “Tiger”

63 Tarari Shri Vishal Prashant

64 Arwal Shri Manoj Sharma

65 Aurangabad Shri Trivikram Singh

66 Gurua Shri Upendra Dangi

67 Gaya Town Dr. Prem Kumar

68 Wazirganj Shri Birendra Singh

69 Hisua Shri Anil Singh

70 Warsaliganj Smt. Aruna Devi

71 Jamui Ms. Shreyasi Singh

Sujit Kumar Singh, an IRS officer who joined the BJP on Monday after resigning from civil service, will replace his wife Swarna Singh from the Gaura Bauram seat. The first list, however, does not include folk singer Maithali Thakur.

The BJP has also given tickets to nine women in its first list, including Renu Devi, Gayatri Devi, Devanti Yadav and Rama Nishad.

Some other prominent names on the list include Prem Kumar from Gaya, former deputy chief minister Tarkishore Prasad from Katihar and Alok Ranjan Jha from Saharsa.

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