JD(U) Candidate List for Bihar Election 2025: The Janata Dal (United) on Wednesday announced its first list of candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections.

The Nitish Kumar -led ruling party named 57 candidates, with MP Sanjay Kumar Jha announcing that the Chief Minister will kick off the poll campaign Thursday. In its first list, the party named former minister Santosh Kumar Nirala, who was “unilaterally” named by party chief Nitish Kumar early September during a party meeting in Buxar. Nirala, 51, will contest the Assembly polls from the Rajpur seat, a Scheduled Caste (SC)-reserved constituency.

Former MLA Anant Singh will contest the Mokama seat, which he won five times. He was disqualified from the seat after his disqualification. The seat then went to his wife Nilam Devi

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