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Former MP and gangster-politician Anand Mohan’s wife, Lovely Anand, was fielded in the Sheohar seat within days of jumping ship. Vijayalaxmi Devi, who joined JD(U) on Saturday, got the ticket for Siwan.
JD(U) fielded Bihar legislative council chairperson Devesh Chandra Thakur in Sitamarhi in place of sitting MP Sunil K Pintu, who had been critical of CM Nitish after the latter parted ways with BJP in August 2022 to form a new govt with RJD and Congress.
While Nitish is now back in NDA, Pintu’s outburst seems to have cost him a ticket for re-election.
“We have selected the candidates after much deliberations. All our candidates will emerge victorious,” said BJP’s national vice-president Vashishtha Narayan Singh, who announced the names.
JD(U)’s list suggests the party and its partner BJP have given weightage to caste while selecting the candidates. The list mirrors the findings of the caste survey in Bihar that identified extremely backward classes (EBCs) and other backward classes (OBCs) as the largest social groups in the state. The two communities together account for 63% of Bihar’s population.
Of the 16 candidates fielded by JD(U), 11 represent these two groups.
The party chose Alok Kumar Suman for the Gopalganj seat, which is reserved for Scheduled Castes.
Three candidates represent the upper castes – Rajiv Ranjan, alias Lalan Singh (Munger), Devesh Thakur (Sitamarhi) and Lovely (Sheohar). The list includes a lone Muslim candidate.
Some of the contenders who made the cut are Sunil Kumar (Valmiki Nagar), Ramprit Mandal (Jhanjharpur), Dileshwar Kamat (Supaul), Mujahid Alam (Kishanganj), Dulalchandra Goswami (Katihar), Santosh Kumar (Purnia), Dinesh Chandra Yadav (Madhepura), Ajay Kumar Mandal (Bhagalpur) Giridhari Yadav (Banka), Kaushlendra Kumar (Nalanda), and Chandeshwar Prasad (Jehanabad).
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