lok Janshakti Party (lJP) on Friday declared its first list of 12 candidates for Bihar polls, which has names of Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan’s brother and nephew. Paswan’s brother Pashupati Kumar Paras, who is the Bihar State chief of the party, has been fielded from the reserved Alouli Assembly seat.
Prince Raj, son of lJP chief’s brother and lok Sabha MP Ram Chandra Paswan, makes his debut from another reserved constituency Kalyanpur.
Declaring the first list, lJP Parliamentary Board chairman Chirag Paswan said there was a consensus with BJP and other NDA allies on 29 of the 40 seats, which it was allotted while talks were still on to finalise 11 other seats which his party would contest. The party’s candidate from Gobindganj seat is Raju Tiwari, brother of former legislator Rajan Tiwari, who faces several criminal cases.
The other seats on which candidates have been declared are Ramesh Singh from Vibhutipur, Anil Chaudhary from Cheria Beriarpur, Subash Chandra Bose from Sikandara, Engineer Himanshu Kumar from Jamaalpur, Amar Kushwaha from Nathnagar, Satendra Singh from Fatuha, Vijay Paswan from Triveniganj, Sarita Paswan from Sonvarsha and Yusuf Khan from Simri Bakhtiyarpur.