BJP’s first list of 43 out for Bihar polls

New Delhi: BJP on Tuesday announced the names of 43 candidates for the Bihar Assembly elections, becoming the first major party to come out with its nominees for the high-stakes polls.

Over 50 per cent of the candidates are women and youth while close to 60 per cent belong to SC and backward castes, said senior BJP leader and Union Minister J P Nadda while releasing the list after the meeting of the party's Central Election Committee.

Five of them are Yadavs, the most numerous OBC group which has traditionally backed RJD's Lalu Prasad but is being vigorously wooed by BJP. Elections for the 243-member Bihar Assembly will take place between October 12 and November 5.

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