Insaaf Times Desk
Ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its first list of candidates. The list includes a total of 71 names, featuring several senior and prominent leaders of the party. Most notably, the current Deputy Chief Minister, Samrat Chaudhary, has been given the ticket to contest from the Tarapur constituency.
Several key leaders have been fielded from their current or new constituencies. Former Deputy CM Renu Devi will contest from Betia, Minister Mangal Pandey from Siwan, Minister Nitin Naveen from Bankipur, and Sanjeev Chaurasia from Digha. Meanwhile, Sanjay Sarawagi will contest from Darbhanga, and Neeraj Kumar Bablu from Chhatapur.
Complete list of BJP candidates (71 seats):
1.Betia – Renu Devi
2.Raxaul – Pramod Kumar Sinha
3.Pipra – Shyambabu Prasad Yadav
4.Madhuban – Rana Randhir Singh
5.Motihari – Pramod Kumar
6.Dhaka – Pawan Jaiswal
7.Riga – Baidyanath Prasad
8.Bathnaha (SC) – Anil Kumar Ram
9.Parihar – Gayatri Devi
10.Sitamarhi – Sunil Kumar Pintu
11.Benipatti – Vinod Narayan Jha
12.Khajouli – Arun Shankar Prasad
13.Bisfi – Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul
14.Rajnagar (SC) – Sujit Paswan
15.Jhanjharpur – Nitish Mishra
16.Chhatapur – Neeraj Kumar Singh Bablu
17.Narpatganj – Devanti Yadav
18.Forbesganj – Vidya Sagar Keshri
19.Sikti – Vijay Kumar Mandal
20.Kishanganj – Sweety Singh
21.Banmankhi (SC) – Krishna Kumar Rishi
22.Purnia – Vijay Kumar Khemka
23.Katihar – Tarakishore Prasad
24.Pranpur – Nisha Singh
25.Koderha (SC) – Kavita Devi
26.Saharsa – Alok Ranjan Jha
27.Gaura Bauram – Sujit Kumar Singh
28.Darbhanga – Sanjay Sarawagi
29.Keoti – Murari Mohan Jha
30.Jale – Jivesh Kumar Mishra
31.Arrai – Rama Nishad
32.Kurhani – Kedar Prasad Gupta
33.Baruraj – Arun Kumar Singh
34.Sahebganj – Raju Kumar Singh
35.Baikunthpur – Mithilesh Tiwari
36.Siwan – Mangal Pandey
37.Daraunda – Karnjeet Singh
38.Goriakothi – Devesh Kant Singh
39.Taraiya – Janak Singh
40.Amanur – Krishna Kumar Mantu
41.Hajipur – Awadhesh Singh
42.Lalganj – Sanjay Kumar Singh
43.Patepur (SC) – Lakhendra Kumar Roshan
44.Mohiuddinagar – Rajesh Kumar Singh
45.Bachhwara – Surendra Mehta
46.Teghra – Rajnish Kumar
47.Begusarai – Kundan Kumar
48.Bhagalpur – Rohit Pandey
49.Banka – Ram Narayan Mandal
50.Katoria (ST) – Puran Lal Tudu
51.Tarapur – Samrat Chaudhary
52.Munger – Kumar Pranay
53.Lakhisarai – Vijay Kumar Sinha
54.Bihar Sharif – Dr. Sunil Kumar
55.Digha – Sanjeev Chaurasia
56.Bankipur – Nitin Naveen
57.Kumhrar – Sanjay Gupta
58.Patna Sahib – Ratnesh Kushwaha
59.Danapur – Ramkripal Yadav
60.Bikram – Siddharth Saurav
61.Barhara – Raghvendra Pratap Singh
62.Ara – Sanjay Singh Tiger
63.Tarari – Vishal Prashant
64.Arwal – Manoj Sharma
65.Aurangabad – Trivikram Singh
66.Gurua – Upendra Dangi
67.Gaya Town – Dr. Prem Kumar
68.Wazirganj – Birendra Singh
69.Hisua – Anil Singh
70.Warsaliganj – Aruna Devi
71.Jamui – Shreyasi Singh
The BJP has mostly fielded its experienced and senior leaders from safe seats, reflecting the party’s strategy to maintain its electoral strength.
In the coming weeks, the contest is expected to become more interesting as other parties release their candidate lists.
