Ahead of the Bihar Assembly election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday announced its second list of candidates for 12 seats. The saffron party has fielded singer Maithili Thakur from the Alinagar seat and former IPS officer Anand Mishra from the Buxar seat.
According to the list released, Ram Chandra Prasad has been fielded from Hayaghat, Ranjan Kumar from Muzaffarpur, Subhash Singh from Gopalganj, Kedar Nath Singh from Baniapur, Chhoti Kumari from Chapra, Vinay Kumar Singh from Sonepur, Birendra Kumar from Rosera, Siyaram Singh from Barh, Mahesh Paswan from Agiaon and Rakesh Ojha from Shahpur.
BJP releases second list of 12 candidates for #BiharElections2025
Singer Maithili Thakur fielded from the Alinagar seat. Former IPS officer Anand Mishra from the Buxar seat pic.twitter.com/XuJCtEGjpA
— ANI (@ANI) October 15, 2025
BJP First List
Earlier on Tuesday, the party had already declared its candidate in the other 71 seats.
In the first list released on Tuesday, Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Sinha have been fielded from Tarapur and Lakhisarai constituencies, respectively.
The party has also fielded former Deputy CMs Renu Devi and Tarkishore Prasad from Bettiah and Katihar seats, respectively.
The party has also fielded former Union Minister and BJP leader Ramkripal Yadav, once a close confidant of RJD supremo Lalu Yadav from the Danapur assembly seat.
The 71-member long list also includes nine female candidates: Renu Devi from Bettaih, Gayatri Devi from Parihar, Devanti Yadav from Narpatganj, Sweety Singh from Kishanganj, Nisha Singh from Pranpur, Kavita Devi from Korha (SC), and Rama Nishad from Aurai.
Earlier, NDA announced that BJP and JDU is going to contest of equal seats, while 29 seats is for LJP.
