Bihar elections 2025: The BJP has released its first list of candidates for the Bihar Assembly elections. The first list has the names of 71 candidates, including that of Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary. Chaudhary will contest the Tarapur Assembly seat. The seat was won by the JD-U's Rajeev Kumar Singh in the 2021 bypolls. Minister of Agriculture Vijay Kumar Sinha, who shares the Deputy CM's chair with Samrat Chaudhary, will be defending his Lakhisarai seat. भारतीय जनता पार्टी की केंद्रीय चुनाव समिति द्वारा बिहार विधानसभा चुनाव-2025 के लिए चयनित सभी प्रत्याशियों को हार्दिक बधाई एवं विजयश्री की अग्रिम शुभकामनाएं।#आएगी_NDA pic.twitter.com/vENiqKpx1w — BJP Bihar (@BJP4Bihar) October 14, 2025 Minister Nitin Nabin to defend Bankipur seat Among the other notable names was Minister of Road Construction Nitin Nabin, who has been asked to defend his Bankipur seat. The BJP has given the Bhagalpur and Begusarai tickets to Rohit Pandey and Kundan Kumar, respectively. Pandey lost the Bhagalpur seat to Congress legislative party leader Ajeet Kumar in the in 2020 Bihar elections. Nine women in first list A total of nine women have been named in the BJP's first list of candidates. Among them are Bihar Minister for Animal and Fisheries Resources Renu Devi, who has been fielded from Bettiah. The other women on the list are Sweety Singh (Kishanganj), Gayatri Devi (Parihar), Devanti Yadav (Narpatganj), Rama Nishad (Aurai), Nisha Singh (Pranpur), Kavita Devi (Korha), Aruna Devi (Warsaliganj), and Shreyasi Singh (Jamui). Sr. No. Constituency Name Candidate Name 1 Bettiah Smt. Renu Devi 2 Raxaul Shri Pramod Kumar Sinha 3 Pipra Shri Shyambabu Prasad Yadav 4 Madhuban Shri Rana Randhir Singh 5 Motihari Shri Pramod Kumar 6 Dhaka Shri Pawan Jaiswal 7 Riga Shri Baidyanath Prasad 8 Bathnaha (SC) Shri Anil Kumar Ram 9 Parihar Smt. Gayatri Devi 10 Sitamarhi Shri Sunil Kumar Pintu 11 Benipatti Shri Vinod Narayan Jha 12 Khajauli Shri Arun Shankar Prasad 13 Bisfi Shri Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul 14 Rajnagar (SC) Shri Sujeet Paswan 15 Jhanjharpur Shri Nitish Mishra 16 Chhatapur Shri Neeraj Kumar Singh Bablu 17 Narpatganj Smt. Devanti Yadav 18 Forbesganj Shri Vidya Sagar Keshri 19 Sikti Shri Vijay Kumar Mandal 20 Kishanganj Smt. Sweety Singh 21 Banmankhi (SC) Shri Krishna Kumar Rishi 22 Purnia Shri Vijay Kumar Khemka 23 Katihar Shri Tarkishore Prasad 24 Pranpur Smt. Nisha Singh 25 Korha (SC) Smt. Kavita Devi 26 Saharsa Shri Alok Ranjan Jha 27 Gaura Bauram Shri Sujit Kumar Singh 28 Darbhanga Shri Sanjay Saraogi 29 Keoti Shri Murari Mohan Jha 30 Jale Shri Jibesh Kumar Mishra 31 Aurai Smt. Rama Nishad 32 Kurhani Shri Kedar Prasad Gupta 33 Baruraj Shri Arun Kumar Singh 34 Sahebganj Shri Raju Kumar Singh 35 Baikunthpur Shri Mithilesh Tiwari 36 Siwan Shri Mangal Pandey 37 Daraundha Shri Karnjeet Singh 38 Goriyakothi Shri Devesh Kant Singh 39 Taraiya Shri Janak Singh 40 Amnour Shri Krishan Kumar Mantoo 41 Hajipur Shri Awadhesh Singh 42 Lalganj Shri Sanjay Kumar Singh 43 Patepur (SC) Shri Lakhendra Kumar Raushan 44 Mohiuddinnagar Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh 45 Bachhwara Shri Surendra Mehta 46 Teghra Shri Rajnish Kumar 47 Begusarai Shri Kundan Kumar 48 Bhagalpur Shri Rohit Pandey 49 Banka Shri Ram Narayan Mandal 50 Katoria (ST) Shri Puran Lal Tudu 51 Tarapur Shri Samrat Chaudhary 52 Munger Shri Kumar Pranay 53 Lakhisarai Shri Vijay Kumar Sinha 54 Biharsharif Dr. Sunil Kumar 55 Digha Shri Sanjiv Chaurasia 56 Bankipur Shri Nitin Nabin 57 Kumhrar Shri Sanjay Gupta 58 Patna Sahib Shri Ratnesh Kushwaha 59 Danapur Shri Ramkripal Yadav 60 Bikram Shri Siddharth Saurav 61 Barhara Shri Raghvendra Pratap Singh 62 Arrah Shri Sanjay Singh "Tiger" 63 Tarari Shri Vishal Prashant 64 Arwal Shri Manoj Sharma 65 Aurangabad Shri Trivikram Singh 66 Gurua Shri Upendra Dangi 67 Gaya Town Dr. Prem Kumar 68 Wazirganj Shri Birendra Singh 69 Hisua Shri Anil Singh 70 Warsaliganj Smt. Aruna Devi 71 Jamui Sushri Shreyasi Singh
