A day after the Indian National Congress released the first list of 77 candidates from Bihar Assembly Elections, the second biggest national party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced the name of 87 candidates in its first list. Bharatiya Janata Party will contest 102 seats out of 243 seats in Bihar. The first list of BJP doesn't feature the name of candidates from Kishanganj district, where the alliance Janata Dal (United) has got preference.
While speculations are made that veteran leader Mohammad Taslimuddin will fight elections from Kishanganj constituency on JD (U) ticket, the seating MLA Gopal Aggarwal has once again got the ticket of Janata Dal (United) from Thakurganj constituency. As per reports Janata Dal (United) has also given ticket to Mujahid Alam from Kochadhaman constituency. Predictions are made that Awadh Bihari Singh will get BJP ticket from Bahadurganj - Terhagach constituency.
BJP candidates to get tickets from Purnea Division include Narayan Jha (Araria), Anandi Yadav (Sikti), Majaharul Bari (Amour), Santosh Khushwaha (Baisi), Krishna Kumar Rishi (Banmankhi – SC Reserved and seating MLA), Raj Kishore Kesari (Purnea – seating MLA), Tarakeshwar Prasad (Katihar – seating MLA), Bhola Rai (Kadwa), Binod Kumar Singh (Pranpur), Vibhash Chandra Chowdhary (Barari – seating MLA) and Mahesh Paswan (Korha – SC reserved).
Get the complete list of BJP candidates below:
Constituency Name - Name of the Candidates
- Ramnagar (SC) - Smt. Bhagirathi Devi (W), MLA
- Narkatiaganj - Shri Satish Dubey, MLA
- Chanpatia - Shri Chandramohan Rai, MLA
- Bettiah - Smt. Renu Devi, (W) MLA
- Raxaul - Dr. Ajay Kumar Singh, MLA
- Sugauli - Shri Ramchandra Sahani, MLA
- Harsidhi (SC) - Shri Krishnanand Paswan, MLA
- Motihari - Shri Pramod Kumar, MLA
- Chiraia - Shri Avanish Kumar, MLA
- Riga - Shri Moti Lal Prasad
- Bathnaha (SC) - Shri Dinkar Ram, MLA
- Parihar - Shri Ram Naresh Yadav
- Sitamarhi - Shri Sunil Kumar Pintu, MLA
- Benipatti - Shri Binod Narain Jha, MLA
- Khajauli - Shri Arun Shankar Prasad
- Madhubani - Shri Ramdeo Mahto, MLA
- Rajnagar (SC) - Shri Ram Preet Paswan, MLA
- Raniganj (SC) - Shri Paramanand Rishidev
- Forbesganj - Shri Padmaparag Renu
- Araria - Shri Narayan Jha
- Sikti - Shri Anandi Yadav
- Amour - Shri Majaharul Bari
- Baisi - Shri Santosh Khushwaha
- Kasba - Shri Pradip Das, MLA
- Banmankhi (SC) - Shri Krishna Kumar Rishi, MLA
- Purnia - Shri Raj Kishore Kesari, MLA
- Katihar - Shri Tarakeshwar Prasad, MLA
- Kadwa - Shri Bhola Rai
- Pranpur - Shri Binod Kumar Singh
- Barari - Shri Vibhash Chandra Chowdhury, MLA
- Korha (SC) - Shri Mahesh Paswan
- Saharsa - Shri Alok Jha
- Benipur - Shri Gopal Thakur
- Darbhanga - Shri Sanjay Saraogi, MLA
- Keoti - Shri Ashok Yadav, MLA
- Jale - Shri Vijay Mishra
- Paroo - Shri Ashok Singh, MLA
- Barauli - Shri Ram Pravesh Rai, MLA
- Gopalganj - Shri Subhash Singh, MLA
- Bhorey (SC) - Shri Indradev Majhi
- Siwan - Shri Vayas Dev Prasad, MLA
- Ziradei - Smt. Asha Pathak (W)
- Darauli (SC) - Shri Ramayan Majhi, MLA
- Raghunathpur - Shri Vikram Kunwar
- Goriakothi - Shri Bhumendra Narayan Singh alias ChunnuBabu
- Taraiya - Shri Janak Singh
- Chapra - Shri Janardhan Singh Sigriwal, MLA
- Garkha (SC) - Shri Gyanchand Majhi, MLA
- Sonepur - Shri Vinay Singh
- Hajipur - Shri Nityanand Rai, MLA
- Mahnar - Shri Achutanand Singh
- Mohiuddinnagar - Shri Rana Gangeshwar Singh
- Rosera (SC) - Smt. Manju Hazari (W)
- Bachhwara - Shri Kundan Singh
- Teghra - Shri Lalan Kunwar
- Begusarai - Shri Surendra Mehta
- Bakhri (SC) - Shri Ramanand Ram
- Bihpur - Engineer Shailendra
- Pirpainti (SC) - Shri Aman Paswan
- Bhagalpur - Shri Ashwini Choubey, MLA
- Banka - Shri Ramnarayan Mandal, MLA
- Katoria (ST) - Shri Sonelal Hembrom
- Suryagarha - Shri Prem Ranjan Patel, MLA
- Lakhisarai - Shri Vijay Sinha
- Rajgir (SC) - Shri Satyadev Arya, MLA
- Bakhtiarpur - Shri Vinod Yadav, MLA
- Kumhrar - Shri Arun Sinha, MLA
- Patna Sahib - Shri N K Yadav, MLA
- Danapur - Smt. Asha Sinha (W), MLA
- Paliganj - Smt. Usha Vidyarthi (W)
- Sandesh - Shri Sanjay Tiger
- Arrah - Shri Amarinder Pratap Singh, MLA
- Agiaon (SC) - Shri Shivesh Ram
- Shahpur - Smt. Munni Devi (W), MLA
- Buxar - Smt. Sukhda Pande (W)
- Ramgarh - Shri Sudhakar Singh
- Chainpur - Shri Brij Kishore Bind, MLA
- Sasaram - Shri Jawahar Prasad, MLA
- Nokha - Shri Rameshwar Prasad, MLA
- Arwal - Shri Chittaranjan Kumar
- Aurangabad - Shri Ramadhar Singh, MLA
- Gurua - Shri Surendra Prasad Singh
- Bodh Gaya (SC) - Shri Shyam Dev Paswan
- Gaya Town - Shri Prem Kumar, MLA
- Rajauli (SC) - Shri Kanhaiya Rajwar
- Hisua - Shri Anil Kumar Singh, MLA
- Chakai - Shri Phalguni Yadav, MLA
