Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 Phase 1 Key Candidates: From Jitan Ram Manjhi to Shreyasi Singh, The Big Names in First Phase of Polls on October 28
Bihar assembly elections 2020 will take place in three phases between October 28 and November 7. The first phase of elections will be conducted on October 28 for 71 seats. The results of all the three phases will be announced on November 10.
Patna, October 23: Bihar assembly elections 2020 will take place in three phases between October 28 and November 7. The first phase of elections will be conducted on October 28 for 71 seats. The results of all the three phases will be announced on November 10. These 71 seats in the first phase will be spread in 16 districts. Shreyasi Singh, Jitan Ram Manjhi, Prem Kumar are among key candidate in the first phase.
The main competition will be between the Mahagathbandhan - alliance of Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Left Parties, and National Democratic Alliance comprising the Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal-United (JDU). In the first phase of elections, the polling will take place on 71 seats spreading in 16 districts of the state. The polling will begin at 7 am. Some of the districts going for polling are affected by left-wing extremism.
Here Are Some Key Candidates in the Bihar Assembly Elections 2020:
Agriculture Minister Prem Kumar: He is BJP candidate from Gaya town Vidhan Sabha seat. He has been elected seven times from the assembly seat till now. Congress has field Akhauri Onkar Nath against Kumar.
Shreyasi Singh: She is an international shooter. Singh is contesting the elections on BJP ticket from from Jamui. RJD has fielded Vijay Prakash against Singh.
Jitan Ram Manjhi: The Former Chief Minister of Bihar and Hindustam Awam Morcha chief Jitan Ram Manji will be contesting from Imamganj vidhan sabha seat against RJD candidate Uday Narain Choudhary.
Vijay Kumar Sinha: State cabinet minister Vijay Kumar Sinha is contenting from Lakhisarai. He is conteting from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket. The Congress has fielded Amreesh Kumar against him.
Ram Narayan Mandal: Mandal, the Minister of Revenue & Land Reforms is contesting on BJP ticket from Banka assembly constituency. The RJD has fielded Javed Iqbal Ansari from Banka.
The Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 is the first major polling exercise since the outbreak of COVID-19 in India. The BJP is contesting 243-seat assembly elections in alliance with Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United (JDU) as part of 50:50 seat division formula.
The Congress, a part of the Mahagathbandhan alliance in Bihar, is contesting on 70 out of the 243 seats. As per the seat-sharing pact finalised, the RJD would be fielding its candidates on 144 constituencies, and the Left Front comprising of CPI, CPI(M) and CPI-ML would be fielding their candidates in 29 assembly seats.
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