India, Oct. 20 -- Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Monday released the list of candidates for the Bihar Assembly Election 2025, fielding candidates in 143 seats. RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav will contest from the Raghopur assembly seat in Vaishali district.

The development comes in the backdrop of stalemate within the INDIA bloc over seat-sharing for the Bihar assembly elections scheduled for November 6 and 11. The counting and declaration of results will be done on November 14.

The deadline to withdraw nomination papers for 121 of the 243 seats set to go to polls in first phase on November 6 will end at 3pm today. A total of 1,375 nominations were accepted till late on Sunday.

Till Sunday night, the Congress had named its candidates on 54 s...