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Bihar elections 2025: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday announced its second list of 12 candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections. Popular folk singer Maithili Thakur has been fielded from Alinagar, while IPS officer Anand Mishra will contest from Buxar. On Tuesday, the party released its first list of 71 candidates. Former Union Minister and Rajya Sabha MP Ram Kripal Yadav, who recently joined the BJP from the RJD, will contest from Danapur.
Minister of Agriculture Vijay Kumar Sinha, who shares the Deputy CM’s chair with Samrat Chaudhary, will be defending his Lakhisarai 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 2020 Bihar elections.
A total of ten women candidates have been named in the BJP’s list today. Among them is Bihar Minister for Animal and Fisheries Resources Renu Devi, who has been fielded from Bettiah, and folk singer Maithili Thakur has been fielded from Alinagar.
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).
Here is the list of the 83 candidates announced so far:
| 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 |
| 72 | Alinagar | Sushri Maithili Thakur |
| 73 | Hayaghat | Shri Ram Chandra Prasad |
| 74 | Muzaffarpur | Shri Ranjan Kumar |
| 75 | Gopalganj | Shri Subhash Singh |
| 76 | Baniapur | Shri Kedar Nath Singh |
| 77 | Chapra | Smt. Chhoti Kumari |
| 78 | Sonepur | Shri Vinay Kumar Singh |
| 79 | Rosera (SC) | Shri Birendra Kumar |
| 80 | Barh | Dr. Siyaram Singh |
| 81 | Agiaon (SC) | Shri Mahesh Paswan |
| 82 | Shahpur | Shri Rakesh Ojha |
| 83 | Buxar | Shri Anand Mishra, IPS |
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