By Admin 
On Thursday (13 November 2025), a day before the counting of votes for Bihar Assembly elections, political parties reviewed the situation from their level and brainstormed about the future strategy. Meanwhile, all eyes are on whether Bihar’s longest-ruling Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will be able to achieve a record fifth term. Tejashwi Yadav claimed that RJD workers and the public are fully prepared to deal with any unconstitutional activity during the counting of votes.
How many parties are contesting elections in Bihar?
From the NDA side, JDU, BJP, LJP (Ram Vilas), Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) are in the electoral fray. The grand alliance includes RJD, Congress, Left parties, Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) and Indian Inclusive Party (IIP). Apart from this, Mayawati’s party BSP, Owaisi’s party AIMIM, Om Prakash Rajbhar’s party Subhaspa, Tej Pratap’s party Janashakti Janata Dal, Chandrashekhar’s party Azad Samaj Party Kanshiram, Prashant Kishore’s Jansuraj Party are in the electoral fray.
Prominent candidates contesting from both the alliances include Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav, Bihar Congress President Rajesh Kumar, JDU’s Anant Singh. Apart from these faces, people’s eyes will also be focused on many seats.
Total 2,616 candidates for 243 assembly seats
According to the report of election monitoring organization Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), a total of 2,616 candidates are in the fray for 243 assembly seats in Bihar. Of these, about 838 candidates (32 percent) have criminal cases. There are around 695 candidates who have serious criminal cases registered against them, such as murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, crimes against women.
Public will keep an eye on these musclemen
Mokama seat has been in the news this time in the Bihar Assembly elections. Here there is a contest between Bahubali Anant Singh and Surajbhan Singh’s wife Veena Devi. Only because of these two, Mokama assembly seat has become the hottest election seat in this entire election of Bihar. Shivani Shukla, daughter of jailed Bahubali Munna Shukla, is contesting elections from Lalganj assembly seat. Munna Shukla alias Vijay Kumar Shukla is serving life imprisonment in the murder case of former Bihar minister Brij Bihari Prasad.
Anita Devi on RJD ticket and Aruna Devi on BJP ticket are in the fray from Warisaliganj assembly constituency of Bihar. Both of them are wives of musclemen. Apart from this, RJD’s Ritlal Yadav from Danapur, Hulas Pandey from Brahmapur, Osama Shahab from Raghunathpur are in the fray.
How many VIP candidates are in the electoral fray?
Vijay Kumar Sinha is contesting from Lakhisarai seat, Samrat Chaudhary from Tarapur, Tejashwi Yadav from Raghopur, Jyoti Singh, wife of Bhojpuri actor Pawan Singh, is contesting from Karakat. The people of Bihar are keeping an eye on the seats of folk singer Maithili Thakur from Alinagar seat, Bhojpuri actor Khesari Lal Yadav from Chapra, Tej Pratap Yadav from Mahua and former IPS officer Anand Mishra from Buxar.