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Bihar elections 2025: RJD to contest 143 seats; full list of candidates

The RJD is contesting the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections as part of the INDIA bloc, in alliance with the Congress, the CPI(ML)L, the CPI(M), the CPI and the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP).

By CNBCTV18.com October 20, 2025, 2:16:08 PM IST (Updated)

The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has released its list of 143 candidates for the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections. The Lalu Prasad Yadav Party is contesting the Bihar elections as part of the INDIA bloc, along with the Congress, CPI(ML)L, CPI(M), CPI and the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP).

In the 2020 elections, the party presented 144 candidates. The leading candidates include Tejashwi Yadav from Raghopur, Chandra Shekhar from Madhepura, Veena Devi (wife of Surabhan) from Mokama and Uday Narayan Chaudhary from Jhajha.

Sl. No.	District	Assembly name	Assembly number	Name of candidate
1	Vaisali	Raghopur	128	Tejashwi Prasad Yadav
2	Madhepura	Bihariganj	71	Renu Kushwaha
3	Purnie	Baisi	57	Abdus Subhan
4	Muzaffarpur	Boshahan (SC)	91	Amar Paswan
5	Nawada	Warsaliganj	239	Anita Devi Mahto
6	saran	Taraiya	116	Shalendra Pratap Singh
7	Sahara	Mahishi	77	Gautam Krishna BDO
8	Jamui	Jhajha	242	Jai Prakash Yadav
9	Darbhanga	Alinagar	81	Vinod Mishra
10	Nalanda	Asthawan	171	Ravi Ranjan Kumar
11	Begusarai	Matihani	144	Bogo Singh
12	Darbhanga	Darbhanga Rural	82	Lalit Yadav
13	Muzaffarpur	Kurhani	93	Bablu Kushwaha
14	Darbhanga	Kéoti	86	Dr Faraz Fatmi
15	Muzaffarpur	Gaighat	88	Niranjan Rai
16	Sahara	Simri Bakhtiarpur	76	Yusuf Salauddin
17	Samastipur	Hasanpur	140	Mala Pushpam
18	Madhepura	Madhepura	73	Professor Chandra Shekhar
19	Purvi Champaran	Madhuban	18	Sandhya Rani Kushwaha
20	Gaya	Imamganj (SC)	227	Ritu Priya Chaudhary
21	Gaya	Barachatti (SC)	228	Tanushree Manjhi
22	Muzaffarpur	Kanti	95	Israel Mansouri
23	Gopalganj	Hathua	104	Rajesh Kushwaha
24	Madhepura	Singheshwar (SC)	72	Chandradhas Chaupal
25	Gopalganj	Baikunthpur	99	Prem Shankar Yadav
26	Gopalganj	Barauli	100	Dilip Singh
27	Gopalganj	Bhorey (SC)	101	Dev Kumar Chaurasia
28	Vaisali	Hajīpur	123	Bhola Yadav
29	Darbhanga	Bahadurpur	85	Amita Bhushan
30	Siwan	Siwan	105	Awadh Bihari Chaudhary
31	Siwan	Barharia	110	Arun Gupta
32	Muzaffarpur	Minapur	90	Munna Yadav
33	Siwan	Raghunathpur	108	Osama Shahab
34	saran	Chapra	118	Shatrughan Kumar, (Khesari Lal)
35	saran	Garkha (SC)	119	Surendra Ram
36	Siwan	Maharaganj	112	Vishal Jaiswal
37	saran	Ekma	113	Srikant Yadav
38	saran	Baniapur	115	Chandni Devi Singh
39	Gaya	Atri	233	Vajayanti Devi
40	Nawada	Rajauli (SC)	235	Pinki Chaudhary
41	Muzaffarpur	Paroo	97	Shankar Yadav
42	saran	Marhaura	117	Jitendra Rai
43	Siwan	Goriyakoti	124	Anawarul Haq Ansari
44	Vaisali	Lalganj	134	Shivani Shukla
45	saran	Parsah	121	Dr Karishma Rai
46	saran	Sonepur	122	Dr Ramanuj Prasad
47	Samastipur	Sarairanjan	136	Arvind Sahani
48	Samastipur	Mowa	135	Ranvijay Sahu
49	Begusarai	Cheria-Bariarpur	141	Sushil Singh Kushwaha
50	Samastipur	Ujiarpur	134	Alok Mehta