BJP silences Shatrughan Sinha, fields Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna Saheb

Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the NDA has announced the names of the candidates for Bihar and the BJP has handed over the esteemed Patna Saheb seat to Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad instead of actor-turned politician Shatrughan Sinha and Union Minister Giriraj Singh has been handed over Begusarai seat.

Further, in the list, Bhupendra Yadav announced, "Ramkirpal Yadav to contest from Patliputra, RK Singh from Arrah, Aswani Choubey from Buxar, Radha Mohan Singh from East Champaran, Rajiv Pratap Rudy from Saran."

BJP has also excluded senior leader Shahnawaz Hussain from the list and LJP leader Chirag Paswan will be contesting the polls from Jamui.

Lok Jan Shakti party's candidate Chandan Kumar has been handed the Nawada seat, the traditional seat of Giriraj Singh.

It is being speculated that former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar would contest from Begusarai seat, but as the Grand Alliance aanounced its seat sharing, CPI was not handed even a single seat to contest upon in teh upcoming 2019 polls.