PATNA: The Jan Suraaj Party on Monday announced its second list of candidates for 65 constituencies for the Bihar assembly elections, but kept under wraps its choice for the Raghopur seat from where its founder Prashant Kishor is expected to take on RJD's Tejashwi Yadav.
Last week, JSP had released a list of 51 candidates. With Monday’s list, JSP has so far announced candidates for 116 constituencies in the 243-member assembly.
The party has stated that it will contest all 243 seats in the election.
Addressing a press conference, Kishor said that with this, the party has named candidates for 116 of the state's 243 seats.
"In the first list, we had announced candidates for 51 seats, and in the second list, we named nominees for 65 seats. Candidates for the remaining seats will be announced later," he said.
Kishor said among the candidates announced so far, 31 belonged to the extremely weaker sections, 21 to Other Backwards Classes, and 21 are Muslims.
"The selection of candidates reflects the party's commitment to represent all sections of society," he said.
JSP national president Uday Singh, alias Pappu Singh said, “We have kept our promise to give representation to every community in the allotment of seats,” he claimed.
In the first list, JSP named 51 candidates, of whom 49 were new contenders. The list included doctors, academicians, professionals, lawyers, former bureaucrats, and retired police officers. The key criterion for the selection of candidates was a clean image, Pappu Singh said.
