The BJP on Wednesday released its third and final list of 18 candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, hours after it announced 12 candidates in the second list. The party has fielded Satish Kumar Yadav from Raghopur to take on former Deputy Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav.

With this, the party has announced its Assembly poll bets for all 101 seats it was allotted as per the NDA seat-sharing pact, with Nitish Kumar's JDU also getting as many seats.

Earlier in the day, Chirag Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party (Ramvilas), which has been given 29 seats in the alliance, announced 14 candidates, while the JDU also released its first list of 57 candidates. Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP), and Jitan Ram Manjhi's Hindustan-Awam Morc

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