New Delhi. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday released its fifth list of 111 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, out of which names have been announced for 17 seats in Bihar. Union Minister Ashwini Choubey has not got the ticket from Buxar and Mithlesh Tiwari has been given a chance in his place.
Union Minister Giriraj Singh will once again contest from Begusarai, while other Union Ministers belonging to Bihar Nityanand Rai will contest from Ujiarpur, RK Singh from Arrah, Ramkripal Yadav from Patliputra.Former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has once again been given ticket from Patna Sahib and Sushil Kumar Singh from Aurangabad.
Rajya Sabha member Vivek Thakur has been made the candidate from Nawada. Similarly, BJP has made Shivesh Ram from Sasaram, Rajiv Pratap Rudy from Saran and Janardan Singh Sigriwal from Maharajganj as its candidates.Other seats in Bihar where names of candidates have been announced in BJP’s fifth list include Raj Bhushan Nishad from Muzaffarpur, Gopal Ji Thakur from Darbhanga, Pradeep Kumar Singh from Araria, Ashok Kumar Yadav from Madhubani, Dr. Sanjay from West Champaran.
The names of Jaiswal and Radha Mohan Singh from East Champaran are included.BJP has so far declared the names of candidates for more than 350 Lok Sabha seats. These include candidates from other states including Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Haryana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Kerala and Telangana. Four of the declared candidates, including Bhojpuri singer Pawan Singh, have withdrawn their names after the controversy.
