In the Bihar Assembly election 2020, the BJP and the Chief minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata United as part of National Democratic Alliance is facing a tough challenge from the Mahagathbandhan, which comprises the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Congress, the Communist Party of India (ML) Liberation, the Communist Party of India an Communist Party of India (Marxist). This is the first time that the JDU and the BJP have reached a seat-sharing deal on the principle of 50-50. The BJP got 121 seats in its quota while the JDU 122. Previously, when the two parties fought Bihar elections together, they seat-sharing formula was in favour of the JDU.
In the Bihar Assembly election 2020, the Vikassheel Insaan Party of Bollywood set designer-turned politician Mukesh Sahani and the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) of former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi are also constituents of the NDA. The JDU has given seven seats to the HAM from its quota while the BJP has parted 11 seats for the VIP.
The elections for 243 constituencies have been held in three phases of which polling for first and second phases were conducted on October 28 and November 3 respectively, the remaining 78 on November 7. The results will be announced on November 10.
Here is a list of BJP candidates contesting the Bihar election 2020
1. Ramnagar: Bhagirathi Devi
2. Narkatiaganj: Rashmi Verma
3. Bagaha: Ram Singh
4. Lauriya: Vinay Bihari
5. Nautan: Narayan Prasad
6. Chanpatia: Umakant Singh
7. Bettiah: Renu Devi
8. Raxaul: Pramod Sinha
9. Harsidhi: Krishnanandan Paswan
10. Govindganj: Sunil Mani Tiwari
11. Kalyanpur: Sachindra Prasad Singh
12. Pipra: Shyambabu Prasad Yadav
13. Madhuban: Rana Randhir Singh
14. Motihari: Pramod Kumar
15. Chiraia: Lal Babu Prasad Gupta
16. Dhaka: Pawan Jaiswal
17. Riga: Moti Lal Prasad
18. Bathnaha: Anil Ram
19. Parihar: Gayatri Devi
20. Sitamarhi: Mitilesh Kumar
21. Benipatti: Vinod Narayan Jha
22. Khajauli: Arun Shankar Prasad
23. Bisfi: Haribhushan Thakur
24. Rajnagar: Ram Prit Paswan
25. Jhanjharpur: Nitish Mishra
26. Chhatapur: Neeraj Kumar Singh
27. Narpatganj: Jayprakash Yadav
28. Forbesganj: Vidya Sagar Keshri
29. Jokihat: Ranjeet Yadav
30. Sikti: Vijay Mandal
31. Kishanganj: Sweety Singh
32. Baisi: Vinod Yadav
33. Banmankhi: Krishna Kumar Rishi
34. Purnia: Vijay Khemka
35. Katihar: Tarkishore Prasad
36. Pranpur: Nisha Singh
37. Korha: Kavita Paswan
38. Saharsa: Alok Ranjan Jha
39. Darbhanga: Sanjay Saraogi
40. Hayaghat: Ramchandra Shah
41. Keoti: Murari Mohan Jha
42. Jale: Jibesh Kumar Mishra
43. Aurai: Ram Surat Ray
44. Kurhani: Kedar Gupta
45. Muzaffarpur: Suresh Kumar Sharma
46. Baruraj: Arun Kumar Singh
47. Paroo: Ashok Kumar Singh
48. Baikunthpur: Mithlesh Tiwari
49. Barauli: Rampravesh Rai
50. Gopalganj: Subash Singh
51. Siwan: Om Prakash Yadav
52. Darauli: Ramayan Manjhi
53. Daraunda: Karanjeet Singh
54. Goriakothi: Devesh Kant Singh
55. Taraiya: Janak Singh
56. Chapra: CN Gupta
57. Garkha: Gyanchand Manjhi
58. Amnour: Krishan Kumar Mantoo
59. Sonepur: Vinay Kumar Singh
60. Hajipur: Awadhesh Singh
61. Lalganj: Sanjay Kumar Singh
62. Raghopur: Satish Kumar Yadav
63. Patepur: Lakhinder Paswan
64. Ujiarpur: Sheel kumar Roy
65. Mohiuddinnagar: Rajesh Singh
66. Rosera: Birendra Paswan
67. Bachhwara: Surendra Mehta
68. Begusarai: Kundan Singh
69. Bakhri: Ramshankar Paswan
70. Bihpur: Kumar Shailendra
71. Pirpainti: Lalan Kumar Paswan
72. Kahalgaon: Pawan Kumar Yadav
73. Bhagalpur: Rohit Pandey
74. Banka: Ram Narayan Mandal
75. Katoria: Nikki Hembrom
76. Munger: Pranav Kumar Yadav
77. Lakhisarai: Vijay Kumar Sinha
78. Biharsharif: Sunil Kumar
79. Barh: Gyanendra Kumar Singh
80. Bakhtiarpur: Ranvijay Singh Yadav
81. Digha: Sanjeev Chaurasiya
82. Bankipur: Nitin Nabin
83. Kumhrar: Arun Kumar Sinha
84. Patna Sahib: Nand Kishore Yadav
85. Fatuha: Satyendra Singh
86. Danapur: Asha Devi Yadav
87. Maner: Nikhil Anand Yadav
88. Bikram: Atul Kumar
89. Barhara: Raghvendra Pratap Singh
90. Arrah: Amrendra Pratap Singh
91. Tarari: Kaushal Kumar Singh
92. Shahpur: Munni Devi
93. Buxar: Parshuram Chaubey
94. Ramgarh: Ashok Kumar Singh
95. Mohania: Niranjan Ram
96. Bhabua: Rinki Rani Pandey
97. Chainpur: Brij Kishor Bind
98. Dehri: Satyanarayan Singh Yadav
99. Karakat: Rajeshwar Raj
100. Arwal: Dipak Kumar Sharma
101. Goh: Manoj Kumar Sharma
102. Aurangabad: Ramadhar Singh
103. Gurua: Rajiv Nandan
104. Bodh Gaya: Hari Manjhi
105. Gaya Town: Prem Kumar
106. Wazirganj: Birendra Singh
107. Rajauli: Kanhaiya Kumar
108. Hisua: Anil Singh
109. Warsaliganj: Aruna Devi
110. Jamui: Shreyasi Singh