New Delhi: The BJP last night released the first list of 43 candidates for the high-voltage Bihar Assembly polls, giving about 60 percent representation to those from SC and backward castes in an apparent attempt to target the base of rival JD(U)-RJD combine.
Five nominees in the list are Yadavs, the most numerous OBC group which has traditionally backed RJD’s Lalu Prasad but is being vigorously wooed by BJP.
Over 50 percent of the candidates are women and youth while close to 60 percent belong to SC and backward castes,said senior BJP leader and Union Minister JP Nadda while releasing the list after the meeting of the party’s CentralElection Committee.
The list carries the names of 26 sitting party MLAs while three sitting legislators have been denied party ticket. The BJP became the first main party to announce its candidates for elections to the 243-member Bihar Assembly that will take place between October 12 to November 5.
“We have tried to give representation to all communities,”Nadda told a press conference.
