RJD names 143 candidates for Bihar, five set to face INDIA allies

20 Oct 2025 13:10 IST

Updated On 20 Oct 2025 13:26 IST

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Tejashwi Yadav Election Commission — LoP in the Bihar Assembly and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav (File image)

Patna: The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Monday announced its list of 143 candidates for the Bihar assembly polls, five of whom would end up contesting against nominees of the other INDIA bloc constituents.

The list was released hours before the filing of nomination papers for the second and final phase was to be over.

Also read: Bihar polls: Congress names 6 more candidates, tally at 60; no seat sharing

It put paid to rumours that the RJD was going to contest the Kutumba seat, currently held by state Congress president Rajesh Kumar Ram, which would have led to a full-blown face-off between the two allies.

Nonetheless, the party would end up contesting against the Congress in Vaishali, Lalganj and Kahalgaon, and against former state minister Mukesh Sahni's Vikassheel Insan Party in Tarapur and Gaura Boram.

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