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With just two days left for the filing of nominations for the first phase ofthe Bihar Assembly polls, political activity is gearing up across the state, with NDA parties, including the BJP, Janata Dal (United), and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), announcing their candidates.
Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), on Wednesday, announced the first list of 14 candidates out of the 29 seats allotted to the party in the final seat-sharing distribution within the NDA for the Bihar Assembly elections.
"There is no problem anywhere. As of now, Mahagathbandhan has neither provided the correct figures about their seat sharing nor announced their candidates. NDA will win by a two-thirds majority," Jaiswal told reporters.
According to the release, the list of candidates for Janata Dal (U) in the first phase of the Bihar Legislative Assembly Elections 2025 has been approved by the party's National President, Nitish Kumar.
"The members of the party have decided that I should focus on working for the victory of the other candidates of the party, so I am not contesting the elections," Kishor told ANI.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday issued strict directions to various enforcement agencies to stop the use of money, freebies, drugs, narcotics and liquor in the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections and bye-elections in 8 Assembly Constituencies, as per the official release
According to the list released on Tuesday, Prem Prapt Singh has been fielded from Chapra, Rajendra Prasad Singh from Lalganj, Aditya Lal from Purnia, and Inderjeet Jyotikar from Hathua.
Amid reports of Bihar's NDA alliance facing internal tensions over seat-sharing, Union Minister and Hindustan Awam Morcha (Secular) leader Jitan Ram Manjhi on Tuesday justified the anger of JD(U), stating that the decision to field candidates from their quota lies with Nitish Kumar.
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) on Tuesday said that it will announce its candidates for the Bihar polls at a press conference, and the list it sent earlier in the day is not the final list of candidates.
The Hindustan Awam Morcha (Secular) on Tuesday announced the list of six candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, among whom four are sitting MLAs.
Thakur is likely to contest the upcoming state assembly elections from Alinagar in Darbhanga, according to the sources. The polling for Bihar's 243-seat Assembly is scheduled to take place on November 6 and November 11, with the counting set for November 14.