India, Oct. 15 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday released its second list of 12 candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls, including singer Maithili Thakur, who joined the party on Monday, and former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from Assam Anand Mishra.

With this, the BJP has announced the names of a total of 83 candidates out of the 101 seats it is contesting in the two-phased Bihar assembly elections on November 6 and 11. In the first list of candidates released a day before, which included 71 names, there were 20 Other Backward Classes (OBCs), 11 from extremely backward classes, and eight women.

Thakur has been given a ticket from the Alinagar seat, which was earlier represented by Mishri Lal Yadav, who r...