Bihar assembly election: BJP releases third list; all 101 candidates declared

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday released its third and final list of 18 candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, thereby naming nominees for all 101 seats it is contesting under the NDA seat-sharing arrangement.With this list, the BJP has completed its share of candidate announcements. The party had earlier released its first list of 71 candidates on Tuesday, followed by a second list comprising 12 names on Wednesday afternoon.

The list includes two candidates. The 101-seat figure corresponds to the BJP’s allotment in the national democratic alliance (NDA) seat-sharing pact, which also includes allies such as chief minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), Union ministers Chirag Paswan and Jiten Ram Manjhi’s LJP(R) and HAM(S), also Upendra Khuswaha’s RLSP.Polls for the 243-seat Bihar assembly are scheduled to take place on November 6 and November 11, and votes will be counted on November 14.