Bihar Assembly polls: RJD’s Sasaram candidate arrested after submitting nomination

RJD candidate Satendra Sah was arrested instantly after submitting his nomination papers from Bihar’s Sasaram Assembly seat on Monday (October 20, 2025), officers stated.

Officers of the police station involved maintained that Mr. Sah was arrested by Jharkhand Police as a non-bailable warrant (NBW) was pending towards him. His supporters have been clueless in regards to the developments.

“As Sah reached the office of the circle officer concerned to file his nomination papers from Sasaram seat, Jharkhand Police officers arrived there to execute a NBW which was pending against him,” a senior officer of Rohtas district stated on situation of anonymity.

“He was allowed to file his nomination papers… But soon after, he was arrested. We are not aware about the nature of the case in which the NBW was issued against him,” he stated, including solely Jharkhand Police might share additional particulars.

The 243-member Bihar Assembly will go to polls in two phases on November 6 and 11, with outcomes set to be introduced on November 14.

This was the third such incident of contesting candidates of the constituents of INDIA bloc being arrested after submitting their nomination papers.

Prior to this, CPI(ML) Liberation’s candidates from Bhore and Darauli seats, Jitendra Paswan and Satyadeo Ram, respectively, have been arrested after submitting their nomination papers.

CPI(ML) Liberation has issued an announcement condemning the arrests.

“We strongly condemn the politically motivated arrests of Comrade Jitendra Paswan and Comrade Satyadeo Ram… They were arrested right outside the nomination centres immediately after filing their papers. These arrests, under fabricated and baseless charges, clearly reveal the fear and panic among the NDA leaders, who feel threatened by the rising assertion of the masses and the people’s determination to bring change in Bihar,” the get together had stated.

Unable to confront the rising anger towards its failed ‘double-engine’ authorities, the BJP-JD(U) alliance is resorting to repression, intimidation, and misuse of police and administrative equipment to silence democratic opposition and suppress folks’s voices, it had stated.