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BJP announces candidates for Bihar council polls, all 4 NDA nominee to file papers on Thursday

PATNA: BJP on Wednesday announced its candidates for the biennial election to Bihar legislative council’s seven seats. The names of Hari Sahni (a native of Darbhanga) and Anil Sharma (Jehanabad) were announced at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi.

Earlier on Tuesday, the JD(U) had announced the names of Afaque Ahmad Khan and Rabindra Prasad Singh as its candidate for the council polls.

All four NDA nominees – Sahni and Sharma (BJP) and Khan and Singh (JD-U)—would file their nomination together on Thursday, the last date for making nominations, before the returning officer at the Vidhan Sabha secretariat here, JD(U) national general secretary Afaque Ahmad Khan, who himself is a candidate, told TOI on Wednesday.

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