Congress, JMM to contest 70 of 81 Jharkhand assembly seats: Hemant Soren

The assembly polls for 81 seats volition beryllium held successful 2 phases connected November 13 and 20, and counting volition instrumentality spot connected November 23.

“INDIA bloc volition contention the Jharkhand assembly polls together. It has been decided during the seat-sharing talks with the allies that the Congress and the JMM volition tract candidates successful 70 of 81 seats,” Soren said aft gathering with the confederation partners here.

He said the determination was taken aft consultations with allies and candidates would beryllium announced soon.

Soren said the JMM-led confederation was assured of retaining powerfulness successful the authorities connected the backmost of its improvement work.

The NDA connected Friday announced its seat-sharing look among its partners. The BJP volition contention 68 seats, AJSU Party 10, JD(U) 2 and LJP (Ram Vilas) 1.

Filing of information papers for 43 assembly constituencies of Jharkhand, which are going to polls connected November 13 successful the archetypal phase, began connected Friday and volition proceed till October 25.

In 2019, the JMM-led confederation won 47 seats successful the Jharkhand assembly, including 30 of JMM and 16 of the Congress.

The BJP had secured 25 seats, JVM-P 3, AJSU Party 2, CPI-ML 1, NCP- 1 and independents 2.

Currently, the spot of the assembly stands astatine 74, with the JMM-led ruling confederation having 44 members.

Two JMM legislators, Nalin Soren and Joba Majhi, are present members of Parliament, portion Jama legislator Sita Soren resigned to contention the Lok Sabha elections connected a BJP ticket.

Additionally, Borio MLA Lobin Hembrom was precocious disqualified nether the anti-defection law.

Similarly, the BJP’s spot has decreased to 23, with 2 of its MLAs—Dhulu Mahto (Baghmara) and Manish Jaiswal (Hazaribag)—now serving arsenic MPs.

Mandu MLA Jaiprakash Bhai Patel, who joined Congress earlier the Lok Sabha elections, was besides disqualified nether the anti-defection law.

Altogether 2.60 crore electors, including 11.84 lakh first-time voters and 1.13 lakh persons with disabilities (PwD), 3rd sex and elder citizens implicit 85 years of age, are eligible to workout their franchise successful the upcoming elections.