For the elections, Kanhaiya Kumar had launched an online crowdfunding platform to collect money to contest the elections.
"Like every drop of water fills an earthen pot, (your) donation of Re 1 to my campaign fund will help me to fight the election and take the voice of the marginalised and exploited to Parliament," he said.
Earlier, Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy of CPI announced that Kanhaiya Kumar will contest from Begusarai Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar as a joint candidate of the left parties. The left parties have slammed the opposition for excluding them in the seat-sharing formula.
After being left out of the alliance by the RJD and Congress, the left parties decided to keep away from it. The former JNU leader shot to fame in 2016 and was later arrested on sedition charges following an event on hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised.
On January 14, Delhi Police had filed a charge sheet in the court against Kumar and others, saying he was leading a procession and supported seditious slogans raised in the JNU campus during an event on February 9, 2016.
Votes will be cast in Bihar's Begusarai during the fourth phase of polls on April 29.