Bihar assembly election 2025: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday announced its second list of candidates for the Bihar elections. The list, which comes a day after the saffron party declared names of 71 candidates, features 12 names. Folk singer Maithili Thakur, who joined the BJP on Tuesday, has been given ticket from the Alinagar assembly constituency.
The party has so far announced 86 names for the state polls. BJP and JD(U) are contesting the election on 101 seats each as part of the NDA’s seat-sharing pact.
| S.No. | Constituency | Candidate Name |
| 1 | Alinagar | Sushri Maithili Thakur |
| 2 | Hayaghat | Shri Ram Chandra Prasad |
| 3 | Muzaffarpur | Shri Ranjan Kumar |
| 4 | Minapur | Shri Subhash Singh |
| 5 | Gopalganj | Shri Kedar Nath Singh |
| 6 | Banipur | Shri Kedar Nath Singh |
| 7 | Chhapra | Smt. Chhoti Kumari |
| 8 | Sonpur | Shri Vinay Kumar Singh |
| 9 | Rosera (SC) | Shri Birendra Kumar |
| 10 | Barh | Shri Shivaram Singh |
| 11 | Agiaon (SC) | Shri Mahesh Paswan |
| 12 | Shahpur | Shri Rakesh Ojha |
| 13 | Buxar | Shri Anand Mishra, IPS |
The list also has name of former IPS officer Anand Mishra who had previously joined Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party. He has now been given ticket by the BJP from Buxar.
Speaking to ANI, he said, “That (joining Jan Suraaj initially) was a wrong step taken by me. It has become like a scar for me now. It suffocates me when people ask me about my time there.”
On Jan Suraaj Founder Prashant Kishor not contesting election, he said he knew it.
“I knew this from the beginning. I always knew that this will never happen. He is playing his role as a consultant for Jan Suraaj. It is good. If someone does something he is built for, he will always excel. My best wishes with him,” Mishra added.
