Bihar Assembly election LIVE: Over 1,250 file nominations for 1st phase of polls; NDA confident, INDIA bloc in disarray

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Updated - October 18, 2025 08:11 americium IST

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar with Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi during a gathering with the heads of enforcement agencies and forces arsenic portion of preparations for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections. | Photo Credit: PTI

Election fever gripped Bihar connected Friday (October 17, 2025) arsenic the filing of information papers for the archetypal signifier of Assembly polls concluded, with the ruling NDA projecting a resolute run successful crisp opposition to the disarray seen successful the absorption INDIA bloc.

According to the Election Commission, much than 1,250 candidates filed their papers for the 121 seats which spell to polls connected November 6, and the fig was apt to spell up arsenic information was inactive flowing successful from districts.

Bhojpuri movie stars and different artists are adding a personage touch to the Assembly predetermination successful Bihar, turning it into a star-studded governmental contest. While the Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has fielded fashionable histrion Khesari Lal Yadav from Chhapra successful Saran district, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has named people vocalist Maithili Thakur arsenic its campaigner from Alinagar successful Darbhanga district.

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Just a fewer candidates for a colonisation of 17.7%: Muslims inactive get abbreviated shrift
Muslims relationship for 17.7% of Bihar’s population, spiking to much than 40% successful bluish borderline districts, but arsenic the Assembly predetermination approaches, they are hard to spot among the campaigner lists of governmental parties. So far, nary governmental enactment has announced much than 4 Muslim candidates for the State’s 243 Assembly constituencies, isolated from the recently floated Jan Suraaj Party, which has promised to tract 40 Muslim candidates and has announced 21 truthful far.
This is contempt the information that the Muslim colonisation is implicit 20% successful 87 constituencies, making their votes a decisive origin successful immoderate candidate’s electoral fortunes. However, astir 75% of the State’s Muslims unrecorded successful bluish Bihar.
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Bhojpuri movie stars and different artists are adding a personage interaction to the Assembly predetermination successful Bihar, turning it into a star-studded governmental contest. While the Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has fielded fashionable histrion Khesari Lal Yadav from Chhapra successful Saran district, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has named people vocalist Maithili Thakur arsenic its campaigner from Alinagar successful Darbhanga district.
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