Bihar Assembly Election 2025: Rebels will be 'hot pepper' for NDA and grand alliance - Bihar Assembly Election 2025 rebels will be hot pepper for nda and grand alliance

By Prabhat Mishra Edited by: Ajit kumar Updated: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:15 (IST) Rebel candidates may create problems for NDA and Grand Alliance on nine assembly seats of West Champaran district. Many workers are enraged by the distribution of tickets and are preparing to contest the election as independent candidates, hence the contest is likely to be triangular. NDA has announced its candidates, while there are still doubts about seat sharing in the Grand Alliance. BJP has fielded Sanjay Pandey from Narkatiaganj, Narayan Prasad from Nautan and Umakant Singh from Chanpatia. Vinay Bihari of Lauria is competing for the fourth time. This photo is taken from Jagran archive. Jagran Correspondent, Bettiah (West Champaran). This time the rebels are going to be a headache for the NDA and the Grand Alliance in the nine assembly seats of the district. After the ticket distribution, many old workers are angry and are preparing to contest independently. There are some faces among them who have a strong support base in the area. Remove advertisement Just read the news Political experts say that if these rebels file nomination, the contest could be triangular. These rebel candidates will work to reduce votes in many seats, which could upset the math of the major parties. Currently, both the alliances are trying to convince the rebels, but the fire of discontent does not seem to cool down. The role of these rebels may turn out to be decisive in the electoral equation. Looking at the political math of the district, NDA won eight out of nine seats in the 2020 elections. Only one seat was in the account of Grand Alliance. CPI(ML)’s Virendra Prasad Gupta won the election from Sikta. This time too he is the candidate of the Grand Alliance. Former JDU minister Khurshid alias Firoz Ahmed resigned from the party and filed independent nomination. BJP’s Rashmi Verma’s ticket has been canceled from Narkatiaganj Assembly. She can also run in elections as an independent candidate. Former Zilla Parishad president and BJP leader Renu Devi were also in the race for the ticket. In the year 2015, she contested the election on BJP ticket and lost the election by a margin of 16,061 votes. There is talk of him entering the election fray with Jansuraj. Former district president Sanjay Pandey became the candidate. BJP has made the organisation’s experienced and grassroots worker Sanjay Pandey (60) the candidate from the Narkatiaganj assembly seat. He is a resident of Fatehpur village under Yogapatti block of Lauria assembly. He has been carrying out various responsibilities in the party since 1991. He was Bettiah District Minister, District Media Incharge and State Councilor from 2001 to 2004. He was District General Secretary for two terms and BJP District President unopposed from 2010 to 2016. 2020. From 2020 to 2023 he served as the state media in charge of BJP Bihar. Currently he is a State Councilor and State Work Committee member. He was also the migrant in charge of Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Delhi and Assam elections. Narayan gets a chance from Nautan for the third time. BJP has given Narayan Prasad a chance for the third time from the Nautan Assembly. However, Narayan Prasad reached the Assembly for the first time in 2009 by winning the election on BSP ticket. In 2010, he joined LJP and contested elections from Nautan assembly constituency on LJP ticket. But lost the election to JDU’s Manorama Prasad. After that he joined BJP. BJP fielded him in 2015 election and he won the election. Since then he has been a continuous MLA. He was also the Minister of Tourism Department in the Government of Bihar from February 9, 2021 to August 9, 2022. For the second time, BJP made Umakant Singh its candidate from Chanpatia Assembly constituency. He was the chief before 2020. BJP fielded him for the first time in 2020 by giving him a ticket. There was resentment among the public and workers due to the cancellation of the ticket of the then outgoing MLA Prakash Rai, even then Umakant Singh took the maximum number of 83,828 votes in the district and became the MLA. Before that he was recognized as chief. He was the chief of Gonauli Panchayat in 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016. Lyricist Vinay Bihari is in the fray for the fourth time. Lyricist Vinay Bihari is in the fray for the fourth time from the Lauria assembly constituency. For the third time, BJP trusted him and fielded him. Vinay Bihari, a resident of Machhargaon of Yogapatti block, entered politics for the first time in 2010. Vinay Bihari, who had nothing to do with politics, won the election as an independent candidate with a margin of about 11 thousand votes. He defeated JDU’s Pradeep Singh. He was also the minister of art and culture in the government of Jitan Ram Manjhi in Bihar.