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LJP releases listing of 42 candidates, together with names of former senior State BJP leaders
A bunch of six parties, together with the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP), the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and others, on Thursday introduced the formation of the “Grand Democratic Secular Front” alliance for the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls. They declared RLSP chief Upendra Kushwaha as their chief ministerial candidate.
The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), in the meantime, launched its first listing of 42 celebration candidates, which included a number of senior BJP leaders who not too long ago joined the LJP regardless of the BJP’s repeated warnings that the celebration could take motion towards these contesting the Bihar polls exterior the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Janata Dal-United (JD-U)’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA) within the State.
In one other growth Satya Prakash, son of former Union minister and RJD chief Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, joined the ruling JD(U) in presence of State celebration chief Basistha Narayan Singh on the celebration headquarters.
On the opposite hand, the RJD is alleged to have given a celebration ticket to the spouse of don-turned-politician Ramakishore Singh from the Mahnar Assembly constituency. Earlier, senior RJD chief Raghuvansh Prasad Singh had stop the celebration in protest towards the chance of Mr. Singh becoming a member of the RJD.
The celebration has additionally modified the Assembly constituency of Tej Pratap Yadav, older son of celebration chief Lalu Prasad, from Mahua in Vaishali to the Hasanpur constituency within the neighbouring Samastipur district. The RJD has fielded Mukesh Roshan from the Mahua seat.
“Altogether six parties are here on one platform to form the Grand Democratic Secular Front and it appeals to the people of Bihar to give us one chance to see how Bihar would be a developed State in five years,” mentioned the Front’s coordinator and chief of the Samajwadi Janata Dal (Democratic), Devendra Yadav.
The leaders of all six parties — AIMIM, RLSP, BSP, Samajwadi Janata Dal (Democratic), Janwadi Party and the Uttar Pradesh-based Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party — had been current on the event. AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi was current on the event, too. “Former Union minister and RLSP leader Upendra Kushwaha will be our chief ministerial candidate,” mentioned Mr. Devendra Yadav.
Meanwhile, the LJP launched its first listing of 42 candidates, which included the names of BJP leaders Rajendra Singh (Dinara), Rameshwar Chourasia (Sasaram), Usha Vidyarthi (Paliganj), Ravindra Yadav (Jhajha), and Mrinal Shekhar (Amarpur). Party chief and spokesperson Ashraf Ansari claimed that, “The LJP has given 20% of 42 seats to women (9), and most of the party’s district presidents too have been accommodated in the list, including several leaders from the BJP and JD(U).”
Earlier, senior BJP leaders had warned that sturdy motion could be taken towards celebration leaders contesting the polls exterior the NDA. But the LJP chief mentioned, “Over a dozen BJP leaders are in touch with our party to contest the poll.”
Later, senior State BJP chief and Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi took a dig on the RJD: “The bahubali (strongman) against whose induction into the party Raghuvansh Prasad Singh had fought till his last breath, the RJD bulldozed Mr. [Raghuvansh Prasad] Singh’s ideal and respect for poor people by giving a party ticket to his [Ramakishore Singh’s] wife.”
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