Turncoats Given Tickets As Nitish Kumar’s Party Names 115 Candidates For Bihar Polls

Patna:

RJD president Lalu Prasad’s shut relative Chandrika Roy has been nominated through the JD(U) from his conventional Parsa meeting seat, however title of the previous state police leader Gupteshwar Pandey is lacking from the record of 115 applicants launched through the birthday celebration on Wednesday.

The JD(U) launched record of the applicants at a press convention addressed through state president Basistha Narayan Singh, birthday celebration chief in Rajya Sabha RCP Singh and its state running president Ashok Choudhary.

Leader Minister Nitish Kumar headed birthday celebration has already allotted seven seats out of its quota of 122 seats within the 243-member meeting to its affiliate spouse Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) of former leader minister Jitan Ram Manjhi.

Mr Roy, father of Tej Pratap Yadav’s estranged spouse Aishwarya, had not too long ago converted to the JD(U) from RJD.

Mr Roy, son of former leader minister Daroga Prasad Rai and a minister within the RJD govt prior to now as smartly within the 2015 Grand Alliance ministry, can be in fray from Parsa constituency in Saran district which he has represented six occasions prior to now.

The title of the previous state police leader Gupteshwar Pandey, who took VRS final month and later used to be given club of the JD(U) through the manager minister himself, is lacking from the record of nominees made public right through the day.

Buxar, the place of birth of Mr Pandey, and Shahpur constituency from the place it used to be speculated within the media that he would possibly contest the state polls have long past to the BJP below seat-sharing system.

The JD(U) were given two seats within the Buxar district- Dumraon and Rajpur (reserved SC)-where it named Anjum Ara and state minister Santosh Kumar Nirala respectively.

Mr Kumar’s birthday celebration has but now not named anyone for the Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha seat which can see by-election on November 7.

The by-poll has been necessitated because of dying of JD(U) itting MP Baidyanath Mahto. There used to be disturbing speculations within the media about probability of the previous DGP being fielded from there.

Mr Pandey, who had hit the nationwide headlines within the dying case of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, hopes now leisure on Valmiki Nagar bypolls or a berth within the legislative council in long run.

Regardless that Mr Pandey may just now not in finding position within the JD(U)’s record, his former police colleague Sunil Kumar, who retired as Director Normal (House Guards) not too long ago has been nominated through the JD(U) from Bhore (reserved seat) in Gopalganj district.

Majority of the ministers and turncoats had been given price ticket through the JD(U).

Speaker of the outgoing meeting Vijay Kumar Chaudhary will contest from his conventional seat Saraiganj in Samastipur district.

Ministers- Bijendra Prasad Yadav, Ram Sevak Singh, Shrawan Kumar, Jai Kumar Singh, Bima Bharti, Madan Sahni, Khursheed Firoz Ahmad, Shailesh Kumar and Krishnandan Prasad Varma had been repeated from their previous constituencies.

Jaivardhan Singh Yadav, grandson of former Bihar minister and a strong Yadav neighborhood chief Ramlakhan Singh Yadav, has been given price ticket from his previous seat Paliganj; whilst Faraz Fatmi has been named from Darbhanga rural seat. Each had left RJD and joined JD(U) not too long ago.

The 2 RLSP MLAs-Lallan Paswan and Sudhansu Sekhar-who had crossed over to Mr Kumar’s birthday celebration have additionally been renominated.

HAM has already named its seven applicants. Jitan Ram Manjhi filed his nomination Wednesday from Imamganj (reserved SC) seat.