Full list of candidates going to polls in Bihar in third phase of Lok Sabha election 2019

Close to nine million voters will be deciding the fates of 82 candidates in five Lok Sabha seats of Bihar in the third phase of election on Tuesday.

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New Delhi: Bihar will on Tuesday witness voting in five Lok seats - Araria, Jhanjharpur, Khagaria, Madhepura and Supaul. - in the third phase of general election. A total of 81 candidates are in the fray and the votes will be cast at 9076 polling stations.

Four sitting MPs Ranjeet Ranjan (Supaul), her husband Pappu Yadav (Madhepura), Sarfaraz Alam (Araria) and Mehboob Ali Kaiser (Khagaria) would seek to retain their respective seats.

In Madhepura, four-time MP Sharad Yadav is contesting from Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) ticket and he is up against JD-U's Dinesh Chandra Yadav and independent Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav. It is to be noted that Pappu Yadav is currently the sitting MP from this seat.

Here is the list of candidates going to polls in Bihar: 

ARARIA

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	PRADEEP KUMAR SINGH	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	RAM NRAYAN BHARTI	Bahujan Samaj Party
3	SARFARAZ ALAM	Rashtriya Janata Dal
4	TARACHAND PASWAN	Bahujan Mukti Party
5	SUDAMA SINGH	Bihar Lok Nirman Dal
6	MD. MATIN	Independent
7	MD. MINHAZ ALAM	Independent
8	MUKESH SINGH	Independent
9	MD. MOBINUL HAQUE	Independent
10	RAMA NAND RISHIDEO	Independent
11	ABDUL WAHID KHAN	Independent
12	SHAHIN PRAVIN	Independent

JHANJHARPUR

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	GULAB YADAV	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2	Raj Kumar Singh	Bahujan Samaj Party
3	Ramprit Mandal	Janata Dal (United)
4	Ganga Prasad Yadav	Peoples Party of India (Democratic)
5	Chhedi Ram	Bhartiya Mitra Party
6	Devendra Prasad Yadav	Samajwadi Janata Dal Democratic
7	Prabhat Prasad	Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party
8	Ratneshwar Jha	Aadarsh Mithila Party
9	Ramanand Thakur	Shivsena
10	Ramesh Kamat	Aam Adhikar Morcha
11	Lakshman Prasad Yadav	Republican Party of India (A)
12	Surendra Prasad Suman	All India Forward Bloc
13	Om Prakash Poddar	Independent
14	Ganpati Jha	Independent
15	Bablu Gupta	Independent
16	Bipin Kumar Singhwait	Independent
17	Sanjay Bhartia	Independent

KHAGARIA

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	Choudhary Mehboob Ali Kaiser	Lok Jan Shakti Party
2	Ramakant Chaudhari	Bahujan Samaj Party
3	Upendra Sahani	Rashtriya Jansambhavna Party
4	Umesh Chandra Bharti	Aadarsh Mithila Party
5	Tej Bahadur Singh	Proutist Sarva Samaj
6	Dhirendra Chaudhary	Aam Adhikar Morcha
7	Madhuvala Devi	Aam Janta Party Rashtriya
8	Mukesh Sahani	Vikassheel Insaan Party
9	Moni Kumar	Bahujan Mukti Party
10	Vinay Kumar Varun	Janhit Kisan Party
11	Sandeep Kumar Saket	Shivsena
12	Sunil Yadav	Garib Janshakti Party
13	Kundan Kumar	Independent
14	Nagendra Singh Tyagi	Independent
15	Parmanand Singh	Independent
16	Priadarshi Dinkar	Independent
17	Bandan Kumar Singh	Independent
18	Shiv Narayan Singh	Independent
19	Shobha Devi	Independent
20	Sangram Kumar Sada	Independent

MADHEPURA

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	Dinesh Chandra Yadav	Janata Dal (United)
2	Sharad Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal
3	Anil Bharti	Rashtravadi Janata Party
4	Umashankar	Bahujan Mukti Party
5	Manoj Kumar Mandal	Aam Adhikar Morcha
6	Rajiv Kumar Yadav	Baliraja Party
7	Rajesh Ranjan@Pappu Yadav	Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)
8	Suresh Kumar Bharti	Asli Deshi Party
9	Md Arshad Husain	Independent
10	Jaykant Yadav	Independent
11	Rajo Sah	Independent
12	Vinay Kumar Mishra	Independent
13	Suman Kumar Jha	Independent

SUPAUL

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	Kiran Devi	Bahujan Samaj Party
2	Dileshwar Kamait	Janata Dal (United)
3	Ranjeet Ranjan	Indian National Congress
4	Md. Abul Kalam Azad	Jai Hind Party
5	Krishan dev Mandal	Rashtravadi Janata Party
6	Dip Narayan Mandal	Shivsena
7	Naveen Kumar Singh	Bihar Lok Nirman Dal
8	Pramod Kumar Nirala	Vanchit Samaj Party
9	Bhim Kumar Gupta	Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party
10	Sanjay Sardar	Lok Sewa Dal
11	Sanjeet Kumar Choudhary	Aam Janta Party Rashtriya
12	Satya Narayan Mehta	Jan Adhikar Party
13	Md. Afroj Alam	Independent
14	Anand Pathak	Hind Samrajya Party
15	Dinesh Prasad Yadav	Independent
16	Binod Kumar Sahu	Independent
17	Rajesh Kumar S/O- Jawahar Lal Das	Independent
18	Rajesh Kumar S/O- Yugeshwar Sah	Independent
19	Sandip Kumar Singh	Independent
20	Sudhakar Jha	Independent

As per the data issued by CEO Bihar office, there are total 8909263 voters, which includes 8899815 General Voters and 9448 Service voters. Out of 8899815 General voters, 4655306 are male voters, 4244284 are female voters and 225 are third gender voters. 

Officials said that para-military forces have been deployed at all polling booths and drones will be used for surveillance.

The campaign in the third phase was mostly characterised by public rallies, roadside meetings, door-to-door visits and roadshows by candidates of different parties.