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BJP has released the first list of 71 candidates for Bihar Assembly elections. The party has given tickets to many ministers and MLAs from their traditional assembly seats. The party has given tickets to both Deputy CM Samrat Chaudhary from Tarapur and Vijay Kumar Sinha from Lakhisarai. Names of 12 ministers and 9 women are also included in this list. The party has fielded two former deputy CMs, Renu Devi from Bettiah and Tarakeshwar Prasad from Katihar.
Names of 12 ministers in BJP’s first list
The names of Mangal Pandey and Dr. Prem Kumar are also included among the 12 ministers to whom BJP has given tickets. The party has fielded two deputy CMs Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, Mangal Pandey (Health and Law Minister), Renu Devi (Animal and Fisheries Resources Department), Nitish Mishra (Industry Minister), Sanjay Saraogi (Revenue and Land Reforms Department), Neeraj Kumar Singh Bablu (Public Health and Engineering Department), Jeevesh Kumar Mishra (Urban Development and Housing Department), Dr. Sunil Kumar (Environment and Climate Minister), Raju Kumar Singh (Tourism Minister), Nitin Naveen. (Road Construction Department), Dr. Prem Kumar (Cooperation Minister) has been given ticket.
9 women candidates in BJP’s first list
BJP has fielded women candidates from Renu Devi from Bettiah, Shreyasi Singh from Jamui, Aruna Devi from Warsaliganj, Gayatri Devi from Parehar, Kavita Devi from Kodha, Nisha Singh from Pranpur, Devanti Yadav from Narpatganj, Rama Nishad from Aurai, Sweety Singh from Kishanganj.
A former Union Minister got the ticket
BJP has given ticket to former Union Minister Ramkripal Yadav from Danapur assembly seat. He has been identified as a politician of the center. He has never contested assembly elections in his political career so far. He had defeated Misa Bharti from Patliputra seat in 2014 and 2019. In 2016, Ramkripal Yadav was given the responsibility of Minister of State in the Union Ministry of Rural Development. He was defeated by Misa Bharti in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Speaker’s ticket canceled
BJP canceled the ticket of 7-time MLA from Patna Sahib and current Bihar Assembly Speaker Nand Kishore Yadav. The party has given ticket to government lawyer Ratnesh Kushwaha from this seat. This is the same lawyer who fought the case related to AI video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother in Patna High Court.
BJP had 56 MLAs on these 71 seats. Of these, 46 have been repeated and tickets of 10 have been cancelled. This time BJP will contest elections on 101 seats in Bihar, out of which names of candidates have been announced on 71 seats and candidates are to be announced on 30 seats.
BJP has tried to give representation to all sections in its first list. Dalit, backward, extremely backward and women all sections have been included. In the first list, 17 OBCs, 11 Extremely Backward Classes and 9 women have been given tickets. BJP has given place to 6 candidates from SC-ST category in the first list. Apart from this, 11 candidates are Bhumihar.
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