Before the Bihar Assembly elections, BJP has released its first list of candidates. The party has tried its best to maintain caste and social balance in this list.
BJP has canceled the ticket of Mithilesh Kumar from Sitamarhi seat and has made Sunil Kumar Pintu its candidate. At the same time, Baidyanath Prasad has got the ticket in place of Minister Motilal Prasad on Riga seat. Similarly, Swarna Singh’s ticket from Gaura Boram has also been canceled.
Correct caste equation from the first list
20 OBC, 11 OBC, 8 women and 6 SC-ST candidates have been included in the first list of BJP. The party claims that more than 50% of the tickets in this list have been given to Dalit, deprived, backward, extremely backward and women categories.
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To address the social equation, the party has fielded 11 candidates from Bhumihar community, 7 from Brahmin, 15 from Rajput and many Kayastha candidates. Many new faces have also been included in the new list – especially Kumharar, Patna On important seats like Sahib, Rajnagar and Aurangabad.
Tickets canceled for these MLAs
Let us tell you that BJP has canceled the ticket of Mithilesh Kumar. In his place, Sunil Kumar Pintu has been made the candidate from Sitamarhi seat. Apart from this, BJP has canceled the ticket of its minister Motilal Prasad. Baidyanath Prasad has been made the candidate in his place on Riga seat. Also, BJP has canceled the ticket of Swarna Singh from Gaura Boram.
Tight grip on alliance seats also
With this first list of BJP, the picture of seat distribution and faces within the alliance has become clear to a great extent. According to sources, after the seat sharing formula was decided in NDA, there was discussion that Danapur, Arwal, Hisua, Lalganj and Tarapur seats could go to Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas). But BJP has announced its candidates on all these seats.
In contrast, BJP did not announce the names of candidates on seats that are to go to JDU or LJP(R). These include seats like Brahmapur, Kahalgaon, Bakhri and Govindganj.
It is clear from the first list of BJP that this time the party has adopted the strategy of maintaining hold on its traditional vote bank and strong areas. At the same time, it has also tried to keep its position strong in the alliance by balancing new and old faces.
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