India, Oct. 15 -- The Janata Dal-United (JD-U) on Wednesday released the first list of 57 candidates for the Bihar assembly elections, a day after the party's nominees started filing their nominations and the symbols were also distributed to nearly a dozen candidates.

"The candidates' names have been released after approval of JD-U president Nitish Kumar," said the list at the very beginning, issued by party state general secretary and headquarters in-charge (establishment) Chandan Kumar Singh.

The list includes some new faces on seats swapped with the BJP and LJP while retaining the sitting members and present ministers. The list has kept into account the social equation, with focus on Lav-Kush and extremely backward classes.

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