Ending suspense, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday released its first list of 71 candidates for the Bihar elections. The party has fielded Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha from Tarapur and Lakhisarai constituencies respectively.

This comes days after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) finalises its seat sharing formula, allotting 101 seats each to the BJP and JDU; 29 seats to Chirag Praswan’s LJP (RV), and six seats each to Jitan Manjhi’s HAM and Upendra Kushwaha’s RLM.

From Purnia, the party has fielded Vijay Kumar Khemka, and minister Mangal Pandey from Siwan.

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Bihar assembly election: Check BJP’s first list of 71 candidates

  1. Bettiah – Renu Devi
  2. Raxaul – Pramod Kumar Sinha
  3. Pipra – Shambabu Prasad Yadav
  4. Madhuban – Rana Randhir Singh
  5. Motihari – Pramod Kumar
  6. Dhaka – Pawan Jaiswal
  7. Riga – Baidyanath Prasad
  8. Bathnaha – Anil Kumar Ram
  9. Parihar – Gaytri Devi
  10. Sitamarhi – Sunil Kumar Pintu
  11. Benipatti – Vinod Narayan Jha
  12. Khajauli – Arun Shankar Prasad
  13. Bisfi – Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul
  14. Rajnagar – Sujeet Paswan
  15. Jhanjharpur – Nitish Mishra
  16. Chhatapur – Neeraj Kumar Singh Bablu
  17. Narpatganj – Devanti Yadav
  18. Forbesganj – Vidya Sagar Kehri
  19. Sikti – Vijay Kumar Mandal
  20. Kishanganj – Sweety Singh
  21. Banmankhi – Krishna Kumar Rishi
  22. Purnia – Vijay Kumar Khemka
  23. Katihar – Tarkishore Prasad
  24. Pranpur – Nisha Singh
  25. Korha – Kavita Devi
  26. Saharsa – Alok Ranjan Jha
  27. Gaura Bauram – Sujit Kumar Singh
  28. Darbhanga – Sanjay Saraogi
  29. Keoti – Murari Mohan Jha
  30. Jale – Jibesh Kumar Mishra
  31. Aurai – Rama Nishad
  32. Kurhani – Kedar Prasad Gupta
  33. Baruraj – Arun Kumar Singh
  34. Sahebganj – Raju Kumar Singh
  35. Baikunthpur – Mithilesh Tiwari
  36. Siwan – Mangal Pandey
  37. Daraundha – Karnjeet Singh
  38. Goriyakothi – Devesh Kant Singh
  39. Taraiya – Janak Singh
  40. Amnour – Krishan Kumar Mantoo
  41. Hajipur – Awadhesh Singh
  42. Lalganj – Sanjay Kumar Singh
  43. Patepur – Lakhendra Kumar Raushan
  44. Mohiuddinnagar – Rajesh Kumar Singh
  45. Bachhwara – Surendra Mehta
  46. Teghra – Rajnish Kumar
  47. Begusarai – Kundan Kumar
  48. Bhagalpur – Rohit Pandey
  49. Banka – Ram Narayan Mandal
  50. Katoria – Puran Lal Tudu
  51. Tarapur – Samrat Chaudhary
  52. Munger – Kumar Pranay
  53. Lakhisarai – Vijay Kumar Sinha
  54. Bihar Sharif – Sunil Kumar
  55. Digha – Sanjiv Chaurasia
  56. Bankipur – Nitin Nabin
  57. Kumhrar – Sanjay Gupta
  58. Patna Sahib – Ratnesh Kushwaha
  59. Danapur – Ramrikapal Yadav
  60. Bikram – Siddharth Saurav
  61. Barhara – Raghvendra Pratap Singh
  62. Arrah – Sanjay Singh “Tiger”
  63. Tarari – Vishal Prashant
  64. Arwal – Manoj Sharma
  65. Aurangabad – Trivikram Singh
  66. Gurua – Upendra Dangi
  67. Gaya Town – Prem Kumar
  68. Wazirganj – Birendra Singh
  69. Hisua – Anil Singh
  70. Warsaliganj – Aruna Devi
  71. Jamui – Sushri Shreyasi Singh