BJP turncoats figure in LJP’s list of 42 candidates for Bihar polls

The Lok Janshakti Party on Thursday named its 42 candidates for the Bihar Assembly polls with some BJP turncoats figuring in the list as Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan’s party works to make the contest harder for the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led JD(U). As the party released its first list of candidates, its president Chirag Paswan again gave a call to defeat the JD(U), claiming that a vote for the state’s ruling party will amount to “destroying” Bihar. All these 42 seats are among the 71 constituencies going to polls in the first phase on October 28, the LJP said. As expected, the LJP has fielded Rajendra Singh and Usha Vidyarthi, two senior Bihar BJP leaders who joined it recently, from Dinara and Paliganj respectively.