Shankar Singh has been contesting elections from Rupauli since 2000. He first won the Rupauli Assembly seat in February 2005 on an LJP ticket. However, he lost in the November 2005 election.
Manish Verma is a 2000-batch IAS officer of the Odisha cadre. He is one of many civil servants invited by the Bihar government to work in the state due to a shortage of civil servants. Verma came to Bihar in 2012 on a five-year interstate deputation and quickly became a favorite of Nitish Kumar.
The Raiganj assembly seat in West Bengal is set for a crucial by-election on July 10. The battle is primarily between Krishna Kalyani of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Manas Kumar Ghosh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Mohit Sengupta of the Congress, creating a triangular contest.
The longest-serving Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar (2005-2013 and 2017-20) , Sushil Modi also held the Finance portfolio, which made a key figure in the rollout and implementation of the Goods and Service Tax as a leading member of the GST Council.
Pappu Yadav, a gangster-turned politician started his political journey in 1990s with Lalu Yadav-led Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). He contested on RJD ticket from Madhepura, however got expelled from the party for anti-party activities.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday allocated portfolios to the newly inducted members of his Cabinet -- a day after expanding it by inducting 21 legislators who were sworn-in as Ministers.
Bihar Governor Rajendra Arlekar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, two Deputy CMs Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, and other leaders were present at the swearing-in programme.