Late on Wednesday night, the BJP announced its third list of 18 candidates, taking the total count of declared candidates to 101, also the number of seats allotted to the party in the final seat-sharing distribution within the NDA for Bihar polls. Earlier today, the party had released its second list of 12 names. On Tuesday, the party had released a list of 71 names, fielding Bihar Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha from Tarapur and Lakhisarai seats, respectively, and six state ministers. The BJP has dropped 16 sitting MLAs from its list of 101 candidates. According to the BJP list, folk singer Maithili Thakur will contest from Alinagar in Darbhanga district. Bihar BJP chief Dilip Jaiswal has said that the NDA is going into the elections with "rock-solid unity." Principal rival Tejashwi Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal is yet to announce its candidates. The Congress, RJD's alliance partner, has not released a formal list, although it has n...
- Mr Jindal was also a Congress MP. He represented Kurukshetra constituency in the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2014 as a Congress MP. This time, he said he wants to contribute to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's agenda of 'Viksit Bharat'.
- Mr Jindal had lost from Kurukshetra in 2014. He said the country has progressed under PM Modi's leadership in the past 10 years, and many historic steps such as the scrapping of Article 370 under the Constitution have been taken.
- The dream of having a Ram temple in Ayodhya has also been realised, Mr Jindal said. The BJP has said Mr Jindal's presence in the party will help the government's agenda of boosting the country's economy and prosperity.
- Sita Soren is the sister-in-law of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren. She will contest from Dumka (Scheduled Tribes) constituency. She joined the BJP on March 20, citing "isolation" and "neglect" by the JMM since her husband Durga Soren's death in 2009.
- Sita Soren was first elected MLA from Jama in 2009. She then became the JMM's national general secretary. She won the Jharkhand assembly election from Jama again in 2014 and 2019.
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