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Altogether 9 candidates of the ruling NDA successful Bihar, including Bhojpuri superstar Pawan Singh and State Minister Nishant Kumar, connected Monday (June 8, 2026) filed their information for the Legislative Council polls.
Biennial polls are being held for 9 seats of the 75-member House, and 8 of these are being contested by the ruling coalition. The past day for withdrawal of information papers is June 11 and voting is scheduled for June 18.
A immense assemblage had turned up astatine the Vidhan Sabha premises to drawback a glimpse of Pawan Singh, whom the BJP has backed for a Legislative Council berth.
Mr. Singh had, successful 2024, turned down a BJP summons from Asansol successful West Bengal and contested the Karakat Lok Sabha spot successful Bihar arsenic an Independent, a determination that is said to person adversely affected the NDA successful the Shahabad region, wherever the ruling conjugation ended up conceding a fig of seats to the INDIA bloc.
He returned to the BJP up of the Assembly polls held successful November past year, asserting that helium wanted to "remain a existent worker of the party" and had not travel backmost hoping for a summons successful the elections.
Mr. Nishant, the lad of erstwhile Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, was accompanied by Sanjay Jha, the nationalist moving president of the JD(U) which his begetter heads, and Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan, a Union Minister from the party's quota.
The JD(U) president was conspicuous by his lack and according to enactment leaders who had turned up to cheer the heir apparent, the seasoned person was distant successful Rohtas territory to conscionable an aged friend.
Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, who successful April became the archetypal BJP person to caput a authorities successful Bihar, and Union curate Chirag Paswan, who heads the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), were among those who turned up astatine the Vidhan Sabha secretariat.
Besides Mr. Singh and BJP nationalist media co in-charge Sanjay Mayukh, who volition tally for a 3rd consecutive term, different enactment candidates were Anil Thakur and Sheela Pandit, some grassroots-level workers who person held assorted posts successful the State unit.
While Mr. Singh and Mr. Mayukh beryllium to the precocious castes, the BJP's accepted enactment base, Mr. Thakur and Ms. Pandit travel from the numerically almighty highly backward classes, to whom the enactment has been reaching out.
The JD(U) candidates, too Mr. Nishant, see Bharti Mehta, an EBC person who has besides been the party's spokesperson, and Shivrani Devi Prajapati, an OBC who is simply a erstwhile State wide secretary.
Another JD(U) candidate, Lalan Prasad, filed his information papers for by-election to a Legislative Council spot that fell vacant upon resignation of the enactment chief, who is present a Rajya Sabha MP.
Besides, LJPRV campaigner Ashraf Ansari, a trusted adjutant of the founding president, besides filed his information papers.
The party's parliamentary committee president Arun Bharti, who is besides Chirag Paswan's brother-in-law, told reporters connected the juncture that "our person has lived by the principles of his begetter who had called for a Muslim to beryllium the Chief Minister of Bihar".
The allusion was to precocious Ram Vilas Paswan, who famously gave up his Union Cabinet berth successful protestation against the Gujarat riots of 2005, and, 3 years later, erstwhile Assembly polls successful Bihar threw up a hung location successful which his Lok Janshakti Party won astir 2 twelve seats, pledged enactment to immoderate enactment that agreed to signifier a authorities headed by a idiosyncratic from the number community.
One of the 9 seats going to polls is being contested by the RJD, the main enactment successful opposition, which has backed Sunil Kumar Singh for a 3rd consecutive term.
