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The Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM, which had vowed to contention "100 seats" successful the Bihar polls upon being spurned by the INDIA bloc, connected Sunday (October 19, 2025) announced 25 candidates, including 2 non-Muslims.
The list, which includes the sanction of Akhtarul Iman, the State president of AIMIM and its lone MLA successful Bihar, was shared by the enactment connected X.
बिहार विधानसभा चुनाव के AIMIM प्रत्याशियों के नाम कुछ इस तरह हैं। इंशाअल्लाह उम्मीद है कि हम बिहार के सबसे मज़लूम लोगों की आवाज़ बनेंगे। यह सूची AIMIM बिहार यूनिट ने तैयार की है और इस सिलसिले में पार्टी की क़ौमी कियादत से भी मशविरा किया गया है।
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"We are blessed to denote the database of AIMIM candidates for the upcoming Bihar elections. The candidates were finalised by AIMIM’s Bihar Unit, successful consultation with the party's nationalist leadership. Inshallah, we volition beryllium a dependable of justness for Bihar's weakest and astir neglected," said the station connected X.
Mr. Iman has been renominated from Amour, wherever 2020 runner-up Saba Zafar was replaced by Sabir Ali, a erstwhile Rajya Sabha MP who was expelled from the enactment 11 years ago, by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U).
Most of the seats contested by the enactment fall, predictably, successful the Seemanchal region, the State's flood-prone north-eastern part, which has a precocious percent of Muslim population.
Besides, the enactment has fielded Manoj Kumar Das from Sikandra, a reserved spot successful the south-central territory of Gaya. Sitting MLA Prafull Kumar Manjhi, who belongs to Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi's Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM), is aiming astatine a 2nd consecutive word from the seat.
In the Dhaka constituency of East Champaran, which borders Nepal, the enactment has fixed a summons to Rana Ranjeet Singh, member of erstwhile Minister and BJP MLA Rana Randheer Singh, who is aiming astatine a hat-trick from the adjoining Madhuban. The BJP campaigner from Dhaka is sitting MLA Pawan Kumar Jaiswal.
In the past Assembly polls, the enactment had contested 19 seats, winning 5 of those, but 4 of its MLAs aboriginal joined the RJD.
The enactment had written letters to RJD president Lalu Prasad and his lad and heir evident Tejashwi Yadav, stating that it was consenting to contention the polls arsenic an INDIA bloc constituent this time. The missives elicited nary response.
