Submitting of nomination papers ended on Monday (October 20, 2025) for the second and ultimate part of Bihar Meeting polls, with the opposition INDIA bloc showing fractured, as constituents would find yourself preventing. one another in a variety of seats.
In keeping with the Election Fee of India, altogether 1,314 candidates have been left within the fray for the primary part wherein 121 constituencies of the 243-strong Meeting would go to polls on November 6, following the withdrawal of 61 nominees, in addition to rejection of greater than 300 throughout scrutiny.
The RJD, which helms the Opposition coalition, and prides itself on having emerged because the single-largest social gathering previously couple of Meeting elections, got here out with a listing of its 143 candidates, a lot after most of them had already been allotted symbols and filed nomination papers.
The social gathering averted a confrontation with the Congress, refraining from fielding a candidate in reserved constituency of Kutumba in opposition to BPCC president Rajesh Kumar Ram, although its candidates would find yourself Preventing in opposition to nominees of the grand outdated social gathering in Lalganj, Vaishali and Kahalgaon.
Earlier, the RJD had additionally appeared poised for a battle with former State Minister Mukesh Sahni’s Vikassheel Insaan Occasion in Tarapur, the place the NDA has fielded BJP chief and Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, and Gaura Boram.
Nevertheless, in Tarapur, the VIP introduced that it will not again its candidate Sakaldeo Bind, who then withdrew his nomination papers in indignation and joined the BJP in presence of Mr. Choudhary.
In Gaura Boram, a letter from RJD president Lalu Prasad to the Chief Electoral Officer of Bihar, informing that his social gathering was backing Sahni’s youthful brother Santosh, and that the individual “turning up with our ballot image, the lantern, not be thought of for nomination” proved to be of no avail.
Afzal Ali, who had filed the nomination papers on the RJD image, refused to again down and the social gathering cadre was now confronted with a complicated state of affairs within the constituency falling in Darbhanga district.
The RJD additionally faces insurrection in Parihar, the place Ritu Jaiswal, the social gathering’s ladies’s wing chief filed her nomination papers as an Impartial, upset over the ticket going to daughter-in-law of former State president. Ram Chandra Purve, whom she has been suspecting of getting performed a job in her defeat within the final Meeting polls, when she misplaced by a skinny margin.
Infighting within the INDIA bloc would even be witnessed in Bachhwara, Rajapakar and Rosera, with Congress and CPI fielding their candidates in all of the three seats. Rajapakar is at the moment held by the Congress which has let sitting MLA Pratima Kumari Das defend her seat.
The Congress is contesting altogether 61 seats, 5 lower than the quantity it had contested in 2020, when it had received solely 19 and the dismal strike price was blamed for the shortcoming of Mahagathbandhan to win a majority.
The momentum gained by Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra however, the social gathering is having to cope with intense dissent as state leaders are questioning the criterion adopted for giving tickets, with many Candidates who misplaced by large margins 5 years getting one other likelihood however those that gave a tricky battle to the NDA have been missed.
A degree of discord has additionally been the clout loved by Pappu Yadav, the Impartial MP from Purnea, married to Ranjeet Ranjan, a Congress Rajya Sabha MP from Chhattisgarh, whose loyalists have been given tickets instead of sitting MLAs, or they’ve been fielded from seats the place the social gathering didn’t have a powerful likelihood of profitable.
Vikassheel Insaan Occasion, which has no MLA within the outgoing Meeting, had aggressively demanded ’40-50 seats’, in addition to the reassurance that Mukesh Sahni can be the ‘Deputy Chief Minister’ if Tejashwi Yadav headed the subsequent authorities, however they did a serious climbdown and settled for 16 constituencies.
The CPI(ML) Liberation, which had one of the best strike price within the Mahagathbandhan in 2020, when it contested 19 and received 12, determined in opposition to being too bold and is contesting solely 20 seats.
The CPI, which has two MLAs, is contesting 9 seats, the social gathering’s workplace secretary Indu Bhushan Verma mentioned.
CPI(M) Bihar state secretariat member Manoj Chandravanshi mentioned his social gathering, which additionally has two MLAs, can be contesting 4 seats.
The final date of submitting of nomination papers had its personal share of drama.
The RJD candidate from Sasaram, Satyendra Sah, was arrested shortly after submitting of nomination papers, by a staff of Jharkhand Police in reference to a case pending in opposition to him within the adjoining state.
It was the third occasion of its variety involving candidates of INDIA bloc.
Earlier, final week, CPI(ML) Liberation candidates Jitendra Paswan and Satyadeo Ram had been arrested shortly after submitting nomination papers from Bhore and Darauli respectively.
The Left social gathering had alleged that these arrests had been “politically motivated” and an indication of “concern and panic” within the NDA camp which has been ruling Bihar for 20 years and was now going through anti-incumbency.
Revealed – October 20, 2025 10:21 pm IST