He chose politics over Hindi professor’s post in JNU; now gets a Lok Sabha ticket from Bihar

Saurav, a resident of Maner near Patna, had completed his masters from JNU in 2009 and PhD in 2014. Saurav had been two-time national secretary of All India Students Union till 2013. A first-generation politician, Saurav comes from an OBC family. His father was a marginal farmer.

Elated at the party’s decision to field him from Nalanda, Saurav said: “We will attack Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s politics that lacks principles. Three-time Nalanda MP has not raised any local issue in Parliament in the last 15 years. We will take up how the Mahagathbandhan government started addressing unemployment with sustained recruitment drives. After Nitish’s switchover to NDA, the momentum was lost. Also, there is concern over attacks on democratic values under the NDA rule.”

CPI (ML)’s Ara candidate Sudama Prasad (63), also an OBC, has been active in Bhojpur politics since 1997. He had also taken out Dalit Asmita Yatra following the 2016 flogging incident. Bhojpur has been a hotbed of social movement. Party’s Karakat candidate Rajaram Singh, an OBC Kushwaha, is pitted against Rashtriya Lok Morcha chief and former Karakat MP Upendra Kushwaha.