Tej Pratap Yadav, former RJD leader and son of Lalu Prasad Yadav, has announced a list of 22 candidates for Bihar assembly elections.
Tej Pratap Yadav, who has launched Janshakti Janta Dal, will be contesting elections from Mahua seat in Vaishali district of Bihar. The former RJD leader had represented the Mahua seat till 2020 when the party shifted him to Hasanpur.
The list of 22 candidates includes party’s nominees for prominent seats, including Patna, Bhojpur, Gopalganj and Samastipur.
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Bihar assembly elections are scheduled to be held in two phases on November 6 and November 11, while the results will be declared on November 14.
“Our national president, Tej Pratap Yadav, will contest the assembly elections from the Mahua constituency in Vaishali district,” JJD state chief Madan Yadav said while releasing the candidates’s list.
The list included Sanjay Yadav from Madhepura, Taurif Rahman from Narkatiaganj, Dharmendra from Barauli, and Braj Bihari Bhatt from Kuchaikot.
The party also named Vikas Kumar Kavi from Bathnaha, Madan Yadav from Barhara, Dr Gajraj Yadav from Bakhtiyarpur, Arjun Kumar from Phulwari and Neeraj Rai from Jagdishpur.
It also included Nitinanand Kumar Soni from Sherghati, Prem Kumar from Imamganj, Amit Kumar Jha from Benipatti, Shashank Yadav from Maner.
Yadav, a former minister in the state government, floated his party after his father expelled him from the RJD over ‘disciplinary activity’ in May this year.
He was expelled from Lalu’s party for six years after he “confessed” on social media of being “in a relationship” with a woman named Anushka. He, however, deleted the social media post and claimed his account was “hacked”.
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