The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday released its second list of candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, naming 12 more contenders, including folk singer Maithili Thakur, who will make her political debut from the Alinagar seat in Darbhanga district.
Thakur’s nomination comes just a day after she formally joined the party in Patna in the presence of state BJP chief Dilip Jaiswal. Her induction had sparked speculation that she would be fielded from Alinagar, a seat currently held
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