The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) published on Sunday a list of 46 candidates from 94 electoral districts in Bihar that will go to the polls in the second phase of the assembly elections in the state on November 3.
The BJP, which is fighting in the 2020 Bihar assembly elections in alliance with Janata Dal (United) of Nitish Kumar, has sent its former Vice President Renu Devi of Bettiah. She has been elected four times by Bettiah to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar. Mithilesh Tiwari will compete from Baikunthpur while Asha Sinha will fight in the seat of the Danapur assembly.
From the strategically important Patna Sahib, which Shatrughan Singh lost to Ravi Shankar Prasad in the Lok Sabha polls after his jump to Congress, the BJP has dispatched Roads Minister Nand Kishore Yadav. Rana Randhir Singh will fight from Madhubani and Rohit Pandey from Bhagalpur. From the assembly seats in Nautan, Chanpatia and Harsidhi, the BJP has introduced Narayan Prasad, Umakant Singh and Krishnandan Paswan respectively.
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Sunil Mani Tripathi, Sachindra Prasad Singh and Shyambabu Prasad Yadav compete from the Govindganj, Kalyanpur and Pipra constituencies respectively, while Mithilesh Kumar, Ram Prit Paswan and Nitish Mishra will fight from Sitamarhi, Rajnagar and Jhanjharpur.
Arun Kumar Singh will compete from Baruraj, Ashok Kumar Singh from Paroo, Ram Pravesh Rai from Barauli, Subhash Singh from Gopalganj, Om Prakash Yadav from Siwan, Ramayan Manjhi from Darauli, Karanjeet Singh from Daraundha, Deveshkant Singh from Taraiyak Singh, and CN Gupta of Chapra.
The seat of the Garkha assembly will be contested by Gyanchand Manjhi, Mantoo Amnour by Krishna Kumar, Sonepur by Vinay Kumar Singh, Hajipur by Awdhesh Singh and Lalganj by Sanjay Kumar Singh.
Satish Kumar Yadav will fight in the Raghopur seat of the assembly, Sheel Kumar Roy in Ujiarpur, Rajesh Singh in Mohiuddinnagar, Virendra Paswan in Rosera, Surendra Mehta in Bachhwara, Kundan Singh in the Begusarai seat and Ramshankar Paswan in Bakhri.
Kumar Shailendra will fight from Bihpur, Lallan Kumar Paswan from Pirpainti, Rohit Pandey from Bhagalpur, Sunil Kumar from Bihar Sharif, Ranvijay Singh from Bakhtiarpur, Sanjeev Chaurasiya from Digha, Nitin Nabin from Bankipur, Arun Kumar Sinha from Kumhrar and Nikh Anandra from Makhrar, Satyeundra .
The Bihar assembly, with 243 seats, will go to the polls in three phases. Voting will take place on October 28, November 3 and November 7 and the results will be published on November 10.
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