Nitish Kumar’s JDU has launched names of 115 candidates for Bihar polls.
Patna:
RJD president Lalu Prasad’s shut relative Chandrika Roy has been nominated by the JD(U) from his conventional Parsa meeting seat, however identify of the previous state police chief Gupteshwar Pandey is lacking from the record of 115 candidates launched by the occasion on Wednesday.
The JD(U) launched record of the candidates at a press convention addressed by state president Basistha Narayan Singh, occasion chief in Rajya Sabha RCP Singh and its state working president Ashok Choudhary.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar headed occasion has already allotted seven seats out of its quota of 122 seats within the 243-member meeting to its affiliate associate Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) of former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi.
Mr Roy, father of Tej Pratap Yadav’s estranged spouse Aishwarya, had just lately converted to the JD(U) from RJD.
Mr Roy, son of former chief minister Daroga Prasad Rai and a minister within the RJD authorities prior to now as properly within the 2015 Grand Alliance ministry, will probably be in fray from Parsa constituency in Saran district which he has represented six instances prior to now.
The identify of the previous state police chief Gupteshwar Pandey, who took VRS final month and later was given membership of the JD(U) by the chief minister himself, is lacking from the record of nominees made public in the course of the day.
Buxar, the hometown of Mr Pandey, and Shahpur constituency from the place it was speculated within the media that he may contest the state polls have gone to the BJP underneath seat-sharing formulation.
The JD(U) received two seats within the Buxar district- Dumraon and Rajpur (reserved SC)-where it named Anjum Ara and state minister Santosh Kumar Nirala respectively.
Mr Kumar’s occasion has but not named anyone for the Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha seat which is able to see by-election on November 7.
The by-poll has been necessitated as a result of loss of life of JD(U) itting MP Baidyanath Mahto. There was hectic speculations within the media about likelihood of the previous DGP being fielded from there.
Mr Pandey, who had hit the nationwide headlines within the loss of life case of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, hopes now relaxation on Valmiki Nagar bypolls or a berth within the legislative council in future.
Although Mr Pandey couldn’t discover place within the JD(U)’s record, his former police colleague Sunil Kumar, who retired as Director Basic (House Guards) just lately has been nominated by the JD(U) from Bhore (reserved seat) in Gopalganj district.
Majority of the ministers and turncoats have been given ticket by the JD(U).
Speaker of the outgoing meeting Vijay Kumar Chaudhary will contest from his conventional seat Saraiganj in Samastipur district.
Ministers- Bijendra Prasad Yadav, Ram Sevak Singh, Shrawan Kumar, Jai Kumar Singh, Bima Bharti, Madan Sahni, Khursheed Firoz Ahmad, Shailesh Kumar and Krishnandan Prasad Varma have been repeated from their previous constituencies.
Jaivardhan Singh Yadav, grandson of former Bihar minister and a strong Yadav neighborhood chief Ramlakhan Singh Yadav, has been given ticket from his previous seat Paliganj; whereas Faraz Fatmi has been named from Darbhanga rural seat. Each had left RJD and joined JD(U) just lately.
The 2 RLSP MLAs-Lallan Paswan and Sudhansu Sekhar-who had crossed over to Mr Kumar’s occasion have additionally been renominated.
HAM has already named its seven candidates. Jitan Ram Manjhi filed his nomination Wednesday from Imamganj (reserved SC) seat.
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