Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah at the election committee at BJP headquarters.
The BJP has announced its first list of 43 candidates for the first two phases of the Bihar elections. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was part of the crucial meeting of the party's election committee this evening where the candidates were shortlisted.
Following is the list of candidates announced by the BJP:
Phase 1 candidates: - Saray Ranjan: Ranjit Nirguni
- Rosera: Manju Hazari
- Teghra: Ramlakhan Singh
- Matihani: Sarvesh Kumar Singh
- Begu Saray: Surendra Mehta
- Bakhri: Ramanand Ram
- Parbata: Ramanuj Chaudhary
- Dihpur: Engineer Kumar Shailendra
- Gopalpur: Anil Yadav
- Tirpaiti: Lalan Paswan
- Banka: Ram Narayan Mandal
- Katoria: Niki Hembram
- Dilhar: Manoj Yadav
- Munger: Pranab Kumar Yadav
- Suragadha: Prem Ranjan Patel
- Lakhisarai: Vijay Kumar Sinha
- Rajouli: Arjun Ram
- Hiswa: Anil Singh
- Jhajha: Dr Ravindra Yadav
Phase 2 candidates:- Ramgarh: Ashok Singh
- Muhaniya: Niranjan Ram
- Chainpur: Brij Kulshore Bind
- Sasaram: Jawahar Prasad
- Dinara: Rajendra Singh
- Nokha: Ram Kishore Prasad Chaurasia
- Karakat: Rajeshwar Raj
- Arwal: Chitranjan Kumar
- Goh: Manoj Sharma
- Navin Nagar: Gopal Narayan Singh
- Aurangabad: Ramadhar Singh
- Gurwa: Rajiv Nandan Dangi
- Bodhgaya: Shyam Dev Paswan
- Gaya: Prem Kumar
- Wazirgunj: Virendra Singh
Candidates for other phases- Patnasahib: Nandkishore Yadav
- Kumrar seat: Arun Kumar
- Betiya: Renu Devi
- Motihari: Pramod Kumar
- Sitamari: Sunil Kumar
- Bennipatti: Vinod Narayan Jha
- Rajgir: Satyadev Narayan Arya
- Bankipur: Nitin Navin
- Arrah: Amrinder Pratap Singh