In 2019, BJP’s Debasree Chaudhuri won the seat by over 60,000 votes. However, this time the BJP has fielded her from the Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha seat and given the ticket for Raiganj to Kartick Paul, a greenhorn in electoral politics.

The RJD has given a ticket to Vijay Kumar Shukla alias Munna Shukla, considered a strongman in the Vaishali and Lalganj areas. Shukla will challenge Veena Devi of the LJPR.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday slammed the leader of the opposition, Tejashwi Yadav, for taking credit for job creation in the state.

Sitting BJP MP Ram Kripal Yadav will contest against Lalu Prasad's eldest daughter & Rajya Sabha member Misa Bharti from the Pataliputra Lok Sabha seat for the third time in a row. The Patliputra constituency was carved out from the erstwhile Patna constituency after the delimitation in 2008.

Ram Vilas Paswan won Hajipur seat in 1977, 1980, 1989, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2014, and his younger brother Pashupati Kumar Paras won from there in 2019, reinforcing it as a stronghold of the Paswan family.

The caste Census remains one of the biggest highlights of the party's manifesto, reinforcing one of its major poll planks ‘jitni abaadi utna haq’, for which Rahul Gandhi has been galvanising public support.

JD-U MP Dulal Chandra Goswami, who drove an auto-rickshaw for a living once upon a time in Patna, and later made the journey to Raisina Hills, is in the poll fray for the Lok Sabha election 2024 from Bihar’s Katihar constituency.