Bihar Assembly Elections 2025: BJP Announces First List of 71 Candidates

BJP kickstarts Bihar Election 2025 campaign by releasing its first list of 71 candidates. Key leaders and fresh faces included in initial phase.

New Delhi: The Bhartiya Janta Party has declared the names for 71 seats, out of total seats of 243, for the upcoming Bihar Assembly Polls, reports Dynamite News correspondent.

The names of both the Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Sinha are there in the list. While Samrat Chaudhary has been fielded from Tarapur, Sinha will contest from Lakhisarai constituency.

The list includes names of nine women candidates.

• Shreyasi Singh from Jamui
• Aruna Devi from Warsaliganj
• Rama Nishad from Aurai
• Kavita Devi from Kodha
• Nisha Singh from Pranpur
• Sweety Singh from Kishanganj
• Devanti Singh from Narpatganj
• Gayatri Devi from Parihar
• Renu Devi from Bettiah

Former MP and Union Minister Ramkripal Yadav has been fielded from Danapur. Besides Mangal Pandey is contesting from Siwan, Awadhesh Singh from Hajipur, Nitin Naveen from Bankipur, Anil Singh from Hisua, Lakhindra Paswan from Patepur, Trivikram Narayan Singh from Aurangabad, and Neeraj Bablu from Chhatapur.

Here's the full list:

Pramod Kumar Sinha - Raxaul
Shyambabu Prasad Yadav - Pipra
Rana Randhir Singh - Madhuban
Pramod Kumar - Motihari
Pawan Jaiswal - Dhaka
Baidyanath Prasad - Riga
Anil Kumar Ram - Bathnaha (SC)
Gayatri Devi - Parihar
Sunil Kumar Pintu - Sitamarhi
Vinod Narayan Jha - Benipatti
Arun Shankar Prasad - Khajauli
Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul - Bisfi
Sujeet Paswan - Rajnagar (SC)
Nitish Mishra - Jhanjharpur
Neeraj Kumar Singh Bablu - Chhatapur
Devanti Yadav - Narpatganj
Vidya Sagar Keshri - Forbesganj
Vijay Kumar Mandal - Sikti
Sweety Singh - KishanganjKrishna Kumar Rishi - Banmankhi (SC)

Vijay Kumar Khemka - Purnia
Tarkishore Prasad - Katihar
Nisha Singh - Pranpur
Kavita Devi - Korha (SC)
Alok Ranjan Jha - Saharsa
Sujit Kumar Singh - Gaura Bauram
Sanjay Saraogi - Darbhanga
Murari Mohan Jha - Keoti
Jibesh Kumar Mishra - Jale
Rama Nishad - Aurai
Kedar Prasad Gupta - Kurhani
Arun Kumar Singh - Baruraj
Raju Kumar Singh - Sahebganj
Mithilesh Tiwari - Baikunthpur
Mangal Pandey - Siwan
Karnjeet Singh - Daraundha
Devesh Kant Singh - Goriyakothi
Janak Singh - Taraiya
Krishan Kumar Mantoo - Amnour
Awadhesh Singh - Hajipur
Sanjay Kumar Singh - Lalganj
Lakhendra Kumar Raushan - Patepur (SC)
Rajesh Kumar Singh - Mohiuddinnagar
Surendra Mehta - Bachhwara
Rajnish Kumar - Teghra
Kundan Kumar - Begusarai

Rohit Pandey - Bhagalpur
Ram Narayan Mandal - Banka
Puran Lal Tudu - Katoria (ST)
Samrat Chaudhary - Tarapur
Kumar Pranay - Munger
Vijay Kumar Sinha - Lakhisarai
Dr. Sunil Kumar - Kumhrar
Sanjiv Chaurasia - Patna Sahib
Nitin Nabin - Danapur
Sanjay Gupta - Bikram
Ratnesh Kushwaha - Barhara
Ramkripal Yadav - Arrah
Siddharth Saurav - Tarari
Raghvendra Pratap Singh - Arwal
Sanjay Singh Tiger - Aurangabad
Vishal Prashant - Gurua
Manoj Sharma - Biharsharif
Trivikram Singh - Digha
Upendra Dangi - Bankipur
Renu Devi - Bettiah
Dr. Prem Kumar - Gaya Town
Birendra Singh - Wazirganj
Anil Singh - Hisua
Sushri Shreyasi Singh - Jamui