New Delhi: Dumping both Lalu Prasad and
Ram Vilas Paswan, Congress on Wednesday announced a list of 11
candidates for assembly bye-elections in Bihar, where it is
going it alone.
Naresh Ram will be the party candidate from Bagaha
assembly segment, Shiv Ratan Yadav from Nautan, Veena Devi
from Begusarai and Umesh Yadav from Triveniganj.
The other candidates are Mehboob Ali Kaiser from Simari
Bhaktiarpur, Mohd Hannan from Araria, Geeta Shankar
(Dhoraiya), Mohd Sahjad (Munger), Sanjeev Prasad Tony
(Phulwari), Girija Singh (Ghosi) and Fakir Chandra Das (Bodh
Gaya).
The announcement was made by AICC in-charge of the state
Jagdish Tytler here.
Bye-elections, which will be held on September 15, were
necessitated in the state following the election of the MLAs
as MPs in the last Lok Sabha polls.
In the Lok Sabha elections, the UPA alliance in the state
broke down over seat allocation and Congress fought it alone,
winning two of the 40 seats in the state.
A section of the Congress in the state has been demanding
that the party severe its ties with the RJD and go it alone in
the polls.
Assembly elections are slated to be held in October next
year in the JDU-BJP ruled state.
Bureau Report
First Published: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 21:28