Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) on Wednesday announced its first list of 57 candidates for the upcoming assembly polls, with several ministers like Vijay Kumar Choudhary, Sharwan Kumar, and Madan Sahni among nominees. Ministers Ratnesh Sada and Maheshwar Hazari also featured on the list.
The list also included turncoats like Shyam Rajak, who returned to the JD(U), quitting RJD about a year ago, and don-turned politician Anant Kumar Singh, who had filed nomination papers from the Mokama assembly seat on Tuesday. JD(U) state unit president Umesh Kushwaha has also been fielded from the Mahnar seat. Kushwaha also filed his nomination papers on Tuesday.
According to the list, Madan Sahni has been fielded from the Badaurpur assembly seat, Ratnesh Sada from Sonbarsa, Maheshwar Hazari from Kalyanpur, Vijay Kumar Choudhary from Sarairanjan, and Shrawan Kumar from Nalanda. Elections to the 243-member assembly will be held in two phases, on November 6 and 11. The votes will be counted on November 14.
Kishor backtracks
Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Wednesday announced that he will not contest the Bihar polls, a decision, he claimed, was taken by the party for its greater good. “If Jan Suraaj Party wins the Bihar polls, it will have a nationwide impact. The compass of national politics will point in a different direction,” Kishor asserted.
Tejashwi Yadav. FILE PIC
“The party has decided that I should not contest the assembly polls. And therefore, the party has announced another candidate from Raghopur, against Tejashwi Yadav. It was a decision we took in the larger interest of the party. If I were to contest, it would have distracted me from the necessary organisational work”, Kishor said.
Tejashwi to contest from Raghopur
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday filed nomination papers from the Raghopur Assembly seat, where he is aiming at a hat-trick. The Raghopur constituency had, in the past, elected his parents, both of them chief ministers of Bihar.
Yadav, 35, filed his nomination papers at the collectorate in Hajipur, the headquarters of Vaishali district, in the presence of father Lalu Prasad, the RJD president, and mother Rabri Devi. Yadav owns movable and immovable assets worth around R8.1 crore, according to the affidavit filed by him.
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