The Bharatiya Janata Party o released its first list of 71 candidates for Bihar Assembly elections. 

The party has fielded Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary from Tarapur, Deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha from Lakhisarai while State Minister Nitin Nabin from Bankipur and Renu Devi to contest from Bettiah.

The saffron party has fielded Gayatri Devi from Parihar, Neeraj Kumar Singh Bablu from Chhatapur, and Tarkishore Prasad from Katihar. Senior party leader Mangal Pandey to contest from Siwan and Dr Prem Kumar will contest from Gaya Town.

Earlier on Sunday, the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) announced its seat-sharing arrangement for the upcoming Bihar elections, with the BJP and JDU to contest on 101 seats each, the LJP (Ram Vilas) on 29 seats, the Rashtriya Lok Morcha on six seats, and the Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) on six seats.
The NDA partners include the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Janata Dal (United) (JDU), Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular), and Rashtriya Lok Morcha.

This announcement was made by Bihar BJP in-charge Vinod Tawde in a social media post on X.Tawde wrote, “Organised and Dedicated NDA… For the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, all members of the NDA family have completed the distribution of seats through mutual consensus in a cordial atmosphere, which is as follows- BJP – 101 seats JD(U) – 101 seats LJP (Ram Vilas) – 29 seats RLM – 06 seats HAM – 06 seats Leaders and workers of all NDA parties have joyfully welcomed this decision. All comrades have girded their loins and are resolved to form an NDA government in Bihar once again.”

In these elections, the NDA will be up against the INDIA bloc, led by Tejashwi Yadav of the RJD, the Congress, the CPI (ML) led by Deepankar Bhattacharya, the CPI, the CPM, and Mukesh Sahani’s Vikasheel Insaan Party (VIP). This time, Bihar will also see the entry of a new player in the form of Prashant Kishor and his party Jan Suraaj.