Mumbai: In Bihar, including NDA’s Nitish Kumar JD (U) and LJP of Ram Vilas Paswan, on Saturday announced their candidates for 39 of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
According to the names declared in a press meet here by the BJP’s national general secretary of BJP and state in-charge Bhupendra Yadav, union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will contest from Patna Sahib seat- Party’s stronghold in the outgoing Lok Sabha by Shatrughan Sinha.
While Union minister Giriraj Singh, whose Nawada seat has gone to LJP, has been shifted to Begusarai, his colleagues have been fielded by the ministers Radha Mohan Singh, RK Singh, Ashwani Kumar Choubey and Ram Kripal Yadav in their seats. Will be removed. Motihari, Ara, Buxar and Pataliputra.
State President of Lok Janshakti Party Pashupati Kumar Paras will come to Hajipur instead of his elder brother Ram Vilas Paswan. The Union Minister is likely to get a Rajya Sabha ticket. Chirag Paswan asks Jamui for re-election.
Yadav said that the candidate for Khagaria Lok Sabha seat, which will be fought by the LJP, will be announced soon.
(With PTI Inputs)
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