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Leader of the Opposition successful the Bihar Assembly and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) person Tejashwi Yadav filed his information papers connected Wednesday from the Raghopur constituency successful Vaishali district, seeking a 3rd consecutive term. Deputy Chief Minister and elder BJP person Vijay Kumar Sinha besides filed his information papers from the Lakhisarai seat, on with respective different enactment candidates. Meanwhile, Jan Suraaj Party laminitis and erstwhile predetermination strategist Prashant Kishor announced that helium would not contention the upcoming Assembly election, citing his “responsibility to run for different enactment candidates”.
Mr. Yadav was accompanied by his parents - RJD main Lalu Prasad and erstwhile Chief Minister Rabri Devi - arsenic good arsenic his sister and Rajya Sabha MP Misa Bharti, and enactment person Bhola Yadav, portion filing his information papers astatine the territory predetermination bureau successful Hajipur. He has earlier been elected from Raghopur successful 2015 and 2020. His parents had besides represented the Yadav-dominated constituency, but successful 2010 erstwhile JD(U)’s Satish Kumar defeated Ms. Rabri Devi. The spot besides has a sizeable Rajput elector base.
Mr. Kishor had earlier indicated that helium mightiness contention against Mr. Yadav from Raghopur “if his enactment decided so.” He launched the Jan Suraaj Party’s run from Raghopur connected October 12 but aboriginal confirmed that helium would not contest, saying helium had “a batch of responsibilities to run for different enactment candidates.” The Jan Suraaj Party, officially founded connected October 2, 2024, astatine Patna’s Veterinary College Ground, volition tract candidates successful each 243 Assembly constituencies. So far, the enactment has announced 2 lists comprising 116 candidates and allotted “school bag” arsenic its predetermination symbol.
From Raghopur, the enactment has fielded Chanchal Kumar, a erstwhile JD(U) subordinate and existent vice-president of the Jan Suraaj younker wing. Mr. Kishor, portion releasing the 2nd database of candidates successful Patna, said the enactment had ensured practice successful proportionality to population. “Representation volition beryllium successful equity with the proportionality of population,” helium said.
Of the 116 candidates announced, 31 are from the Extremely Backward Classes, 21 each from the Backward and Minority communities, and 14 from the General category. Twenty-five of the seats are reserved.
Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha filed his information from Lakhisarai, a spot helium has held since 2010. Mr. Sinha, who served arsenic Speaker of the Bihar Assembly betwixt November 2020 and August 2022, was joined by chap Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, Union Textiles Minister Giriraj Singh, and BJP person and Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta. Other BJP nominees, including Mithilesh Tiwari (Baikunthpur, Gopalganj), Sanjay Saraogi (Darbhanga), and Sanjiv Chaurasia (Digha, Patna), besides filed their papers connected Wednesday.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is expected to motorboat his run connected October 16 from Samastipur, wherever helium volition be the information filing of elder JD(U) person Vijay Kumar Choudhary from the Sarairanjan constituency. Mr. Kumar is besides apt to sojourn Darbhanga the pursuing day. The JD(U) connected Wednesday released its archetypal database of 57 candidates, which includes respective caller faces and nominees from backward and highly backward classes.
