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Rabri Devi reached the Vidhan Sabha secretariat alongside along with her husband Lalu Prasad, the RJD president, and sons Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav | Photo: PTI
Former Bihar CM Rabri Devi on Monday filed nomination papers for election to the state legislative council, apart from three different candidates of her RJD and one in every of alliance accomplice CPI(ML) Liberation.
Three candidates of the BJP, together with former minister and state unit chief Mangal Pandey, additionally filed their nomination papers.
Rabri Devi reached the Vidhan Sabha secretariat alongside along with her husband Lalu Prasad, the RJD president, and sons Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav.
The different RJD candidates who filed nomination papers had been Abdul Bari Siddiqui, Syed Faisal Ali and Urmila Thakur. CPI(ML) Liberation’s Shashi Yadav additionally filed nomination papers.
While Yadav’s mom is in search of re-election to the higher home for a 3rd consecutive time period, Siddiqui, a veteran chief, has had a three-year-long stint within the council within the Nineteen Nineties, apart from having been elected to the meeting a number of instances.
The different Mahagathbandhan candidates might be making their debut within the Vidhan Parishad.
Yadav, nonetheless, declined to take questions on former Lok Janshakti Party president Chirag Paswan, who’s within the NDA however has dropped hints that he might swap sides if he bought a greater deal.
Congress legislative social gathering chief Shakil Ahmed Khan, who was additionally current on the event, was requested about some leaders of his social gathering expressing dissatisfaction that “despite having 17 MLAs”, it was not fielding a candidate for legislative council polls.
Notably, elections are being held for 11 seats, the phrases of that are to finish in May. Of these, one seat was held by senior Congress chief Prem Chandra Mishra.
After the Mahagathbandhan candidates, it was the flip of Mangal Pandey, apart from BJP debutantes Anamika Singh Patel and Lal Mohan Gupta to file their nomination papers.
They filed their nomination papers within the presence of Samrat Choudhary, Deputy Chief Minister and state BJP president, apart from Jitan Ram Manjhi, ex-CM, whose HAM is an NDA accomplice and whose son Santosh Suman can be in search of re-election to the legislative council.
Suman, who’s a minister within the Nitish Kumar cupboard, filed his nomination papers final week, together with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and JD(U) MLC Khalid Anwar.
The final date for withdrawal of nomination papers is March 14 and voting, if required, will happen on March 21.
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First Published: Mar 11 2024 | 4:19 PM IST
