2019 Lok Sabha polls: NDA declares candidates for 40 seats in Bihar, RS Prasad gets Patna Sahib

Some notable names from the NDA camp contesting the Lok Sabha election in Bihar are Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna Sahib as the sitting BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha has rebelled and is all set to join the Congress and fight from the same seat.

Ravi Shankar Prasad (PTI)

Patna : National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Saturday declared its list of candidates for all the 40 seats of Bihar for the 2019  Lok Sabha elections. Some notable names from the NDA camp contesting the Lok Sabha election in Bihar are Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna Sahib as the sitting BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha has rebelled and is all set to join the Congress and fight from the same seat. BJP has played safe by allotting tickets to most of its sitting MPs including Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh, Ram Kripal Yadav (Patliputra), Rajiv Pratap Rudy (Saran) and Raj Kumar Singh (Arrah). Giriraj Singh, who had won the Nawada seat in 2014 Lok Sabha election, has been shifted to Begusarai although he had expressed his desire to contest from his old seat. But in the seat-sharing agreement, Nawada constituency went to Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party. The JDU, which was not with the NDA in the last general election, has repeated its sitting MPs - Santosh Kumar Kushwaha from Purnia and Kaushalendra Kumar from Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar home turf Nalanda. As per the seat-sharing agreement between NDA constituents in the state, the Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal United are contesting in 17 constituencies each while the Lok Janshakti Party has got six. Here is the full list of Bihar NDA candidates for Lok Sabha election 2019: BJP Patliputra - Ram Kirpal Yadav, sitting MP Patna Sahib - Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Law Minister Arrah - Raj Kumar Singh (RK Singh), sitting MP Purvi Champaran - Radha Mohan Singh, sitting MP and Union Agriculture Minister Paschim Champaran - Sanjay Jaiswal, sitting MP Sheohar - Rama Devi, sitting MP Madhubani - Ashok Kumar Yadav, son of sitting MP Hukmdev Narayan Yadav Darbhanga - Gopalji Thakur. Sitting BJP MP Kirti Jha Azad rebelled and joined Congress Muzaffarpur - Ajay Nishad, sitting MP Maharajganj - Janardan Singh Sigriwal, sitting MP Saran - Rajiv Pratap Rudy, sitting MP Buxar - Ashwini Kumar Chaubey, sitting MP Sasaram (SC) - Cheddi Paswan, sitting MP Begusarai - Giriraj Singh, won from Nawada in 2014 Araria - Pradeep Singh Aurangabad - Sushil Kumar Singh, sitting MP Ujiyarpur - Nityanand Rai, sitting MP and BJP Bihar president JDU Purnia - Santosh Kumar Kushwaha, sitting MP Madhepura - Dinesh Chandra Yadav, Bihar minister Supaul - Dilkeshwar Kamat Kishanganj - Mahmood Ashraf Katihar - Dulalchand Goswami Siwan - Kavita Singh Balmiki Nagar - Baidyanath Mahto Jhanjharpur - Ram Preet Mandal Sitamarhi - Dr Barun Kumar Gaya (SC) - Vijay Kumar Manjhi Gopalganj (SC) - Dr Alok Suman Munger - Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh, close aide of Nitish Kumar and Bihar Water Resources Minister Banka - Giridhari Yadav Bhagalpur - Ajay Kumar Mandal Nalanda - Kaushalendra Kumar, sitting MP Karakat - Mahabali Singh Jahanabad - Chandeshwar Prasad Chandrawanshi LJP Hajipur (SC) - Pashupati Kumar Paras, LJP Bihar chief and Ram Vilas Paswan's brother Vaishali - Beena Devi, wife of JDU MLC Dinesh Kumar Singh Samastipur (SC) - Ram Chandra Paswan, Ram Vilas Paswan's brother Jamui (SC) - Chirag Paswan, Ram Vilas Paswan's son Nawada - Chandan Kumar Khagadia - Yet to announce. Choudhary Mahboob Ali Kaiser is the sitting MP Kaushal Yadav of JDU will contest the Nawada Assembly byelection while BJP will contest from Dehri and the name of the candidate will be announced later.