The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Giriraj Singh will contest from Begusarai in Bihar, BJP president Amit Shah stated yesterday, putting the will-he-won't-he speculation firmly to rest. Giriraj Singh had earlier sulked that his party had humiliated him by not allowing him to contest from Nawada.

These reports had prompted Bihar's poster boy Kanhaiya Kumar, student leader and Communist Party of India (CPI) candidate to taunt Giriraj Singh. Mumbai's top Communist cadre, Prakash Reddy, secretary CPI Mumbai and National Council member though pronounced that, "Giriraj has sensed that he will lose. I am quite sure Kanhaiya Kumar is going to win."