Bihar Polls: BJP Drops Speaker, Fields Two Deputy CMs In First List Of 71 Candidates

This special report focuses on the Bharatiya Janata Party's first list of 71 candidates for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections, which notably includes Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha. A major highlight from the list, as detailed by our correspondent Rohit Singh, is that ‘the incumbent speaker of the Legislative Assembly. He has been denied a ticket’. While the party has fielded its top leadership, it has dropped current Bihar Assembly Speaker Nand Kishore Yadav, replacing him with Ratnesh Kushwaha for the Patna Sahib seat. The list also features nine women candidates and other prominent names like former Union Minister Ram Kripal Yadav, who will contest from Danapur. This move comes after resolving a potential seat-sharing conflict over Danapur with ally Chirag Paswan's LJPR party.