Former Union Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey was not given the ticket from Buxar, and similarly, the party has dropped Ajay Nishad from Muzaffarpur.
CPI General Secretary D. Raja said that Awadesh Kumar Rai will contest the seat which will go to polls on May 13, in the fourth of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections.
When asked about NDA leaders claiming more than 400 seats in the Lok Sabha election, Tejashwi said that they can say anything but the INDIA bloc is concentrating on the issues related to the common people.
At the rally at Shivaji Park, organised on the occasion of the conclusion of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, leaders of several INDIA bloc parties recalled Mahatma Gandhi’s Quit India movement in 1942, saying that the time has come to work together to relieve the country from the BJP.
H.R. Srinivasa, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Bihar, said that four seats -- Aurangabad, Gaya (SC), Nawada, and Jamui (SC) -- will go to the polls in the first phase on April 19, while polling will be held in Kishanganj, Katihar, Purnea, Bhagalpur, and Banka in the second phase on April 26.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday announced the option of 'vote-from-home' for citizens above 85 years of age, and Persons with Disabilities (PwD) with 40 per cent disability benchmark, marking the first instance of the poll panel offering such a facility.
Along with the Lok Sabha election, the ECI will also announce the schedule of elections for some state assemblies including Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.
Imam said that the AIMIM candidates will definitely contest in the four Lok Sabha seats of Muslim dominant Seemanchal region including Kishanganj, Purnea, Araria and Katihar.
Union Ministers Pralhad Joshi (Dhawad), Piyush Goyal (Mumbai North), Nitin Gadkari (Nagpur), Anurag Singh Thakur (Hamirpur), and Shobha Karandlaje (Bangalore North) are also in the list.
A seat-sharing agreement between the NDA constituents in Bihar has been finalised and a formal announcement will be made in due course, LJP-Ram Vilas chief Chirag Paswan said on Wednesday.
