New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) On Thursday, released its list of star campaigners for the first phase of the Bihar Legislative Assembly Elections 2025. The list includes some of the party’s most important national and regional leaders, such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, and Party President JP Nadda.
Other well-known people on the 40-member list are Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, Dharmendra Pradhan, Smriti Irani, and Giriraj Singh, as well as Chief Ministers Yogi Adityanath (Uttar Pradesh), Himanta Biswa Sarma (Assam), and Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh).
The important Bihar Assembly elections will happen in two parts: the first on November 6 and the second on November 11. The Election Commission of India says that the votes would be counted on November 14.
The BJP made the declaration the day after the party announced its third and final list of 18 candidates, bringing the total number of candidates running in the 2019 assembly elections to 101. The JD(U), which is led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, will also run candidates in 101 constituencies. The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), led by Chirag Paswan, will get 29 seats as part of the NDA’s seat-sharing deal.
The saffron party’s star campaigners show that they want to use both national and regional appeal to get more support from voters across the state.
BJP releases third list of 18 candidates for #BiharElections2025 pic.twitter.com/ADNRsMQdUx
— ANI (@ANI) October 15, 2025
Complete List of BJP Star Campaigners for the 2025 Bihar Assembly Elections (Phase 1)
- Narendra Modi
- Jagat Prakash Nadda
- Singh Rajnath
- Amit Shah
- Nitin Gadkari
- Shivraj Singh Chouhan
- Dharmendra Pradhan
- Giriraj Singh
- Yogi Adityanath
- Fadnavis Devendra
- Himanta Biswa Sarma
- Mohan Yadav
- Rekha Gupta
- Smriti Irani
- Keshav Prasad Maurya
- C. R. Patil
- Dilip Kumar Jaiswal
- Samrat Choudhary
- Vijay Kumar Sinha
- Renu Devi
- Prem Kumar
- Nityanand Rai
- Radha Mohan Singh
- Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
- Satish Chandra Dubey
- Choudhary Raj Bhushan
- Ashwini Kumar Choubey
- Ravi Shankar Prasad
- Nand Kishore Yadav
- Rajiv Pratap Rudy
- Sanjay Jaiswal
- Vinod Tawde
- Babulal Marandi
- Pradeep Kumar Singh
- Gopaljee Thakur
- Janak Ram
- Singh Pawan
- Manoj Tiwari
- Ravi Kishan
- “Nirahua” Dinesh Lal Yadav
The party’s choice of well-known Bhojpuri actors and politicians like Manoj Tiwari, Ravi Kishan, and Dinesh Lal Yadav “Nirahua” shows that they want to use Bihar’s strong film and cultural ties to connect with regular voters.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is currently in charge of Bihar’s administration. He left the RJD-Congress-led Mahagathbandhan in 2024 and rejoined the NDA. The BJP-JD(U) alliance and the RJD-led opposition group see the impending election as a big test. The state is getting ready for a very heated political battle.