Bihar elections: BJP releases first candidate list; DY CM Samrat Chaudhary to contest from Tarapur, Vijay Sinha from Lakhisarai

Ahead of the high-stakes political battle in Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday unveiled its first list of candidates for the upcoming assembly elections, scheduled to begin on November 6.

As per the first list consisting of 71 candidates, Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary will be fighting the polls from Tarapur, Vijay Sinha from Lakhisarai and Mangal Pandey from Siwan. Bihar Minister Nitin Nabin will be contesting polls from Bankipur and Renu Devi to contest from Bettiah.

The Central Election Committee of the BJP met in Delhi on Sunday evening to finalise the tickets for the first list of party candidates. As per the arrangement, the BJP is going to contest 101 of the 243 seats in Bihar. The meeting was attended by PM Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah, defence minister Rajnath Singh, BJP national president JP Nadda, BJP general secretary (organisation) BL Santhosh, other members of the CEC and senior party leaders from Bihar.


Earlier on Sunday, the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) announced its seat-sharing arrangement for the upcoming Bihar elections, with the BJP and JDU to contest on 101 seats each, the LJP (Ram Vilas) on 29 seats, the Rashtriya Lok Morcha on six seats, and the HindustAwam Morcha (HAM) on six seats.

The NDA partners include the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Janata Dal (United) (JDU), Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular), and Rashtriya Lok Morcha.

Check full list here:

Constituency	Candidate
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	Karnjeet 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

The Bihar Assembly election for all 243 constituencies is scheduled to be held on November 6 and 11. The counting will take place on November 14.

The Mahagathbandhan, which includes the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Congress, Left parties, and the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), has not yet reached a consensus on seat-sharing. The alliance partners of the grand coalition are working to finalise the seat-sharing agreement and select their candidates.