Patna: The Jan Suraaj Party on Monday announced its second list of candidates for 65 constituencies for the Bihar assembly elections, but kept under wraps its choice for the Raghopur seat from where its founder Prashant Kishor is expected to take on RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav.

Addressing a press conference, Kishor said that with this, the party has named candidates for 116 of the state’s 243 seats.

“In the first list, we had announced candidates for 51 seats, and in the second list, we named nominees for 65 seats. Candidates for the remaining seats will be announced later,” he said. Show Full Article

Kishor said among the candidates announced so far, 31 belonged to the extremely weaker sections, 21 to Other Backwards Classes, and 21 are Muslims.

“The selection of candidates reflects the par

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