Updated: October 15, 2020 8:52:39 pm
From left to right: Subhashini, daughter of socialist leader Sharad Yadav; Shatrughan Sinha’s son Luv
Congress on Thursday announced its final list of 49 candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, which includes the actor-turned-politician and the son of former Lok Sabha MP Shatrughan Sinha Luv, from the Bankipur seat in Patna, already the daughter of veteran socialist leader Sharad Yadav, Subhashini, from the Bihariganj seat. in Madhepura.
The party also sent the grandson of former Bihar Chief Minister Abdul Gafoor, Asif Gafoor, from Gopalganj, and AICC Secretary ChandanYadav, from the Beldaur headquarters in Khagaria. The head of the state Youth Congress, Gunjan Patel, was sent from Nalanda’s seat.
The party decided to officially publish the list late in the evening, while many candidates, including Luv, already submitted their nominations during the day. Luv’s entry will make the contest in Bankipur interesting.
It will be a multi-corner battle between the seated MLA of BJP Nitin Navin, Luv and Pushpam Priya, head of a new party called Plurals. The contest gets more interesting with the rebellious BJP Sushma Sahu also competing as an Independent.
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Although the four seats in Patna, Kumhrar, Patna Saheb, Bankipur and Digha, have BJP MLAs and are taken as party pocket, the Bankipur seat has attracted some interest among voters. Pushpam Priya, who declared herself a CM candidate, chose Bankipur in her bid to attract the attention of the main political parties.
The party has re-nominated all of its sitting members except one: Bhorey MLA, Anil Kumar. While one MLA had died, another joined the JD (U) last month.
The MLAs who have been re-ticketed include Madan Mohan Tiwari from Bettiah, Amita Bhushan from Begusarai and Ajeet Sharma from Bhagalpur, Vinay Varma from Narkatiaganj, Amit Kumar Tunna from Riga, Bhawana Jha from Benipatti, Abidur Rahman from Araria, Md. Tauseef. from Bahadurganj, Abdul Jalil Mastan from Amour, Md. Afaque Alam from Kasba, Shakeel Ahmad Khan from Kadwa, Manohar Prasad Singh from Manihari and Punam Kumari Alias Punam Paswan from Korha. Two members of the board of directors, Ashok Kumar and Vijay Shanker Dubey, have changed seats.
Congress had to cede four of its seats for the polls in the second and third phases to the Allies. While the Bhorey seat has gone to CPI (ML) Liberation, the Bachhwara seat has gone to CPI. Manjhi’s seat, held by former Minister Dubey, has been transferred to the CPM. Gobindpur’s seat has gone to RJD.
While Bachhwara MLA Ramdeo Rai died last month, Gobindpur MLA Purnima Yadav left the party and joined JD (U). Since his Manjhi seat has gone to the CPM, Dubey has been sent from the Maharajganj seat.
At the Rosera headquarters in the Samastipur district, the party has sent Nagendra Paswan in place of the MLA Ashok Kumar. Kumar has been dispatched from neighboring Kusheshwar Asthan in Dharbanga district.
The party will contest 70 seats in the elections, while its alliance party RJD will contest 144 seats. In addition, a total of 29 seats have been assigned to three left-wing parties: CPI-ML (19), CPI (6), CPM (4).
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