BJP releases third list of 18 candidates for Bihar Elections 2025 — Check names

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday night released its third list of 18 candidates for upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, fielding Bina Devi from Kochadhaman seat and Sanjay Pandey from Narkatiaganj.

With this, the BJP has announced names of a total of 101 candidates for the assembly polls so far.

The third list came hours after the party announced the names of 12 candidates in the second list, including singer Maithili Thakur from Alinagar seat and former IPS officer Anand Mishra from Buxar.

The party released the fiirst list of 71 candidates for the elections on Tuesday, fielding Bihar Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha from Tarapur and Lakhisarai seats, respectively, and six state ministers.

The first list also included nine women candidates, including sitting Minister Renu Devi, who will seek re-election from the Bettiah assembly constituency.

The elections for the 243-member Bihar Assembly are scheduled to be held in two phases on November 6 and 11. The counting of votes will take place on November 14.

Earlier in the day, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) announced its first list of 51 candidates.

Meanwhile, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP), an NDA ally in Uttar Pradesh, also released the list of 48 candidates for the first phase.

"We wished to strengthen the NDA in Bihar but due to the unresponsive behaviour of the state unit of the BJP, we could not get along with the alliance," SBSP national general secretary Arvind Rajbhar told reporters here.

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, Deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha file nomination papers

Several top leaders of Bihar, including RJD's Tejashwi Yadav and Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha, a senior BJP leader filed their nomination papers for the assembly elections.

Yadav, who is the INDIA bloc's face, scoffed at rumours that he was thinking of contesting more than one seat and exuded confidence that the voters of Raghopur, who have elected him twice, would give him a third chance in a row.

Sinha, who seeks a fourth consecutive term from Lakhisarai, filed his nomination papers in presence of Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, who had flown to the poll-bound state to boost the morale of party colleagues.