Bihar assembly elections of Nitish Kumar’s party JDU’s (Janata Dal United) released a list of 115 candidates on Wednesday.
However, former Bihar DGP Gupteshwar Pandey, who recently joined the party, is not named in this list released by JDU. Releasing the list of all the candidates, JDU state president Vashistha Narayan Singh said that JDU has got 122 seats for the Bihar assembly elections in the National Democratic Alliance. He said that out of this, JDU in 115 seats and its partner Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hum Party in 7 seats are contesting.
He said that the party has released a list of 115 candidates in which representation of all societies has been ensured and according to our resolution, women have been given special place in it. Singh said that we are fighting the election alliance and going among the people with service.
He said that the priority of the JDU government is to take all classes and communities together and bring backward people forward. JDU state president Vashisht Narayan Singh said that we ask for votes not on promises but on the basis of our work. We are confident that we will win with heavy votes on the strength of our service and our actions.
Singh said that no government has considered putting environment in the agenda but we have done that in Bihar. A day earlier, the seat-sharing in the NDA was finalized for the Bihar assembly elections under which the BJP won 121 seats while the JDU share got 122 seats.
JDU has given seven seats to Jitan Ram Manjhi’s ‘Hum’ party with his account. BJP announced VIP Party to give 11 out of 121 seats of its quota in NDA.
Gupteshwar Pandey, who was seeking Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) before his scheduled retirement from the former Bihar Director General of Police (DGP), was speculating that he could be contested from Buxar.
Buxar is the ancestral district of Pandey. After joining VRS, he joined the Janata Dal United (JDU). The BJP released its second list of candidates for the election. The names of only 2 candidates have been announced in this.
The party has nominated Parshuram Chaturvedi from Buxar assembly constituency and Deepak Sharma from Arwal. In the last election from Buxar Assembly seat, BJP had nominated young leader Pradeep Dubey as its candidate. He had to face defeat by over 30 thousand votes at the hands of Munna Tiwari of Congress. Despite the defeat, Dubey stood in the area and was in constant contact with the public.
