Patna: CPI-ML (Liberation) declared names of 55 more candidates for the last three phases of assembly polls in Bihar on Friday.
With this the number of seats to be contested by the party to 103 of the total 243 in allaince with two major Left parties CPI and CPI-M, CPI(ML) state committee secretary Nand Kishor Prasad said.
In the latest list, CPI-ML(L) nominated its former MP Rameshwar Prasad from Sandesh in Bhojpur, retained sitting MLA N K Nanda at Paliganj, Arun Singh at Karakat), besides ex-MLA Rajaram Singh from Obera in Aurangabad district. The party has already fielded 48 candidates for the first three phases of the Bihar assembly polls beginning from
October 21.
Among them is the sitting MLA of Raghunath assembly seat Amarnath Yadav, while another sitting MLA Munnas Alam has been replaced by his brother and ex-MLA Mehboob Alam from Balrampur assembly constituency, Prasad said.
Another former MLA Satya Dev Ram has been given ticket from Darauli(SC) seat, he added.
PTI
