B N Singh ‘Pappan’
Saharsa : Thirty-four candidates including Independents on October 19, 2020, filed their nominations amidst tight security arrangements for the Assembly elections in Saharsa District in North Bihar to be held in the third phase. Candidates seeking election from Saharsa, Mahishi, and Sonebarsa Assembly Constituencies filed their nominations at Collectorate. The supporters of the candidates were stopped at the barrier. Only three persons including respective proposers of the candidates were allowed inside the collectorate.
JD(U) nominee Gunjeshwar Sah, RJD nominee Lovely Anand, JAP nominee Ranjan Priyadarshi, RLSP led Alliance candidate Krishna Shekhar, and Independent Kishore Kumar “Munna”, a former MLA, RJD nominee Gautam Ksihna, JAP candidate Devnarayan alias Nunu Yadav, LJP nominee Mohd Rajjak, and BSP nominee Arshad Hussain, JD(U) Ratnesh sada, were prominent among those filing their nominations on October 19.