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Bihar Elections 2025: The Congress on Wednesday night announced the names of its 16 candidates for the upcoming 243-seat Bihar Assembly elections 2025, which are scheduled to be held in two phases - November 6 and 11. Interestingly, the announcement comes before the formal announcement of the finalisation of seat-sharing among the Mahagathbandhan partners. The Grand Old Party gave candidates their nomination certificates.

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Here Are The List Of Congress Candidates

- Anand Shankar Singh from Aurangabad

- Pratima Das from Rajapakad

- Shiv Prakash Garib Das from Bachhwar

- Trishuldhari Singh from Barabigha

- Kaushalendra Kumar from Nalanda

- Shashi Shekhar Singh from Wasirganj

- Rajesh Ram from Kutumba

- Amita Bhushan from Begusarai

- Jitendra Singh from Amarpur

- Om Prakash Garg from Gopalganj

- Vijendra Chaudhary from Muzaffarpur

- Shashi Bhushan Rai from Govindganj

- BK Ravi from Rosda

- Amaresh Kumar from Lakhisarai

- Lalan Kumar from Sultanganj

- Anil Kumar from Bikram

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Meanwhile, the party has not yet come out with a formal list of candidates, several aspirants stormed the Patna airport late in the evening, to heckle state Congress president Rajesh Kumar and legislative party leader Shakil Ahmed Khan, accusing them of having "put up tickets for sale".

Kumar and Khan, who had returned from Delhi, were understood to have planned to distribute tickets at Sadaqat Ashram, the BPCC headquarters.

However, they decided otherwise sensing the foul mood and gathered at the residence of one of the leaders where candidates were called and handed out the party symbol. Photographs of a number of such candidates were shared on the X handle of the Bihar Congress.

According to unconfirmed reports, the Congress has agreed to settle for 61 seats, nine less than the number it had contested in 2020, winning only 19, while the RJD, predictably, get the lion's share, though it was also likely to contest fewer seats than the last time when out of 144 candidates, 75 had tasted victory. The Left allies, CPI(ML) Liberation, CPI(M) and CPI and former state minister Mukesh Sahani are expected to be accommodated in the remaining seats of the 243-strong assembly.

(With PTI inputs)

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