Bihar Meeting Elections 2025: The AAP has introduced its first checklist of 11 candidates for the upcoming elections to 243-member Bihar legislative meeting.
The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) on Monday introduced its first checklist of 11 candidates for the upcoming elections to 243-member Bihar legislative meeting. The AAP, which is a brand new entrant in Bihar, had introduced in July that it could contest Bihar elections. Although the get together was part of the INDIA bloc throughout the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, AAP’s nationwide convenor Arvind Kejriwal had introduced that his get together would go solo within the Bihar polls.
Later, senior AAP chief Saurabh Bharadwaj additionally confirmed that the get together would go solo within the Bihar polls. “We’re contesting Bihar elections independently,” Bhardwaj, AAP’s Delhi unit chief, had instructed information company ANI earlier this 12 months.
Following is the checklist of 11 candidates introduced by AAP:
- Dr Meera Singh – Begusarai (Begusarai)
- Yogi Chaupal – Kusheshwarsthan (Darbhanga)
- Amit Kumar Singh – Taraiya (Saran)
- Bhanu Bharatiya – Kasba (Purnia)
- Shubhada Yadav – Benipatti (Madhubani)
- Arun Kumar Rajak – Phulwari Sharif (Patna)
- Dr Pankaj Kumar – Bankipur (Patna)
- Ashraf Alam – Kishanganj (Kishanganj)
- Akhilesh Narayan Thakur – Parihar (Sitamarhi)
- Ashok Kumar Singh – Govindganj (Motihari)
- Former Captain Dharamraj Singh – Buxar (Buxar)
2020 Bihar elections polling and outcomes
The earlier Bihar meeting elections have been held in three phases – first section on October 28, second section on November 3 and third section on November 7. The outcomes, alternatively, have been declared on November 10. In response to the Election Fee of India (ECI), the collective voter turnout in 2020 Bihar elections was 57.05 per cent, with 55.68 per cent in first section, 55.70 per cent in second section and 59.94 per cent in third section.
The ruling Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) had emerged victorious within the 2020 Bihar polls, successful 125 seats. In the meantime, the Rashtriya Janata Dal-led grand alliance or the Mahagathbandhan had received 110 meeting constituencies.