Bihar: Rozina Nazish named as JD(U) candidate for Bihar council by-poll, to file her nomination on Wednesday

PATNA: Rozina Nazish, widow of former MLC Tanweer Akhtar, will be the NDA candidate for by-election to one vacant seat in the Bihar Legislative Council, as the ruling JD(U), a constituent of NDA, on Tuesday declared her its official candidate.
“Rozina Nazish has been declared JD(U)’s official candidate for the by-election to one seat in the Bihar legislative council,” JD(U) state president Umesh Singh Kushwaha said here on Tuesday.
The opposition parties are yet to declare its candidate for the council by-election, to be held on October 4, in case more than one candidate remains in the contest.
Contacted over phone, Nazish told TOI on Tuesday that she would file her nomination papers around 11 am on September 22 (Wednesday), the last day for filing nominations.
Scrutiny of nomination will be held on September 23, while the last date for withdrawal of candidature is September 27.
“Nazish would file her papers as the JD(U) candidate but she would be the nominee of all constituents of the NDA. Important leaders of all four NDA constituents will be present during the filing of nomination papers by Nazish,” Kushwaha told TOI on Tuesday. He said, CM Nitish Kumar also would be present during the filing of papers by Nazish.
The by-election to one seat of the council was necessitated following the untimely death of JD(U)’s sitting MLC Tanweer Akhtar. Serving as the In-charge of JD(U) minority cell, Tanweer died of covid-19 at a government hospital in Patna on May 8 this year.
A native of Gaya town, Tanweer was elected as the JNU Student Union president in 1991 as the nominee of NSUI, the student wing of Congress. He also served as state president of Youth Congress in Bihar.
Tanweer was first elected to the Bihar legislative council as the Congress nominee in July, 2016. Later, he along with other three Congress MLCs, led by former BPCC chief Ashok Choudhary, caused a split in the Congress legislative party in the council. A few days later, all four MLCs joined the ruling JD(U) in March, 2018. Tanweer’s term as MLC was to complete on July 21, 2022.