Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM announces list of 25 candidates for Bihar elections

The Asaduddin Owaisiled AIMIM which had vowed to contest 100 seats in the Bihar polls upon being spurned by the INDIA bloc on Sunday announced 25 candidates including two nonMuslimsThe list which includes the name of Akhtarul Iman the state president of AIMIM and its lone MLA in Bihar was shared by the party on X AIMIM AIMIM We are happy to announce the listhellip pictwittercom9ec1t4KpR2mdash AIMIM aimim_national October 19 2025We are happy to announce the list of AIMIM candidates for the upcoming Bihar elections The candidates were finalised by AIMIMs Bihar Unit in consultation with the partys national leadership Inshallah we will be a voice of justice for Bihars weakest and most neglected said the post on XIman has been renominated from Amour where Chief Minister Nitish Kumars JDU has replaced 2020 runnerup Saba Zafar with Sabir Ali a former Rajya Sabha MP who was expelled from the party 11 years agoMost of the seats contested by the party fall predictably in the Seemanchal region the states floodprone northeastern part which has a high percentage of Muslim populationBesides the party has fielded Manoj Kumar Das from Sikandra a reserved seat in the southcentral district of Gaya Sitting MLA Prafull Kumar Manjhi who belongs to Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhis Hindustani Awam Morcha HAM is aiming at a second consecutive term from the seatIn the Dhaka constituency of East Champaran which borders Nepal the party has given a ticket to Rana Ranjeet Singh brother of former minister and BJP MLA Rana Randheer Singh who is aiming at a hattrick from the adjoining MadhubanThe BJP candidate from Dhaka is sitting MLA Pawan Kumar JaiswalIn the last assembly polls the party had contested 19 seats winning five of those but four of its MLAs later joined the RJDThe party had written letters to RJD president Lalu Prasad and his son and heir apparent Tejashwi Yadav stating that it was willing to contest the polls as an INDIA bloc constituent this time The missives elicited no responseEarlier on October 17 the Congress party released its first list of 48 candidates for the upcoming Bihar Legislative Assembly electionsOut of the total 48 candidates 24 will be contested in the first phase of elections and 24 in the second phase The party said that the remaining names will be announced in due courseThe Mahagathbandhan comprising the RJD and Congress was unable to finalise a seatsharing pact for the first phase of the Bihar polls as the nomination process concluded on Friday The constituents of Mahagathbandhan are engaged in a friendly fight on some seatsIn these elections the NDA will be up against the INDIA bloc led by Tejashwi Yadav of the RJD the Congress the CPI ML led by Deepankar Bhattacharya the CPI the CPM and Mukesh Sahanis Vikasheel Insaan Party VIP This time Bihar will also see the entry of a new player in the form of Prashant Kishor and his party Jan SuraajWith inputs from PTI