Jharkhand Assembly elections 2024: Congress releases first list of 21 candidates

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ajay kumar, Jaiprakash Bhai Patel, Health Minister Banna Gupta (From near to right) Former Jharkhand Congress president Ajoy Kumar, Jaiprakash Bhai Patel and Health Minister Banna Gupta. (FB)

The INDIA bloc successful Jharkhand released its archetypal database of candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections, connected Monday, with the Congress naming 21 candidates. The enactment has renominated its MLAs from 18 seats, but Mandu, Hazaribagh and Jamshedpur East.

Former Jharkhand Congress president Ajoy Kumar is the campaigner from Jamshedpur East and volition instrumentality connected Odisha Governor and erstwhile Jharkhand main curate Raghubar Das’s daughter-in-law Purnima Das Sahu. Kumar had resigned from the Congress aft the 2019 Lok Sabha elections citing large differences with the elder enactment wrong the authorities enactment unit. He had won the Jamshedpur Lok Sabha bypoll successful 2011 aft Arjun Munda had vacated the seat.

One of the caller entrants successful the database is Munna Singh from Hazaribagh, who had antecedently contested connected a Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) ticket. Singh volition instrumentality connected BJP’s Pradeep Prasad, besides a caller entrant successful Hazaribagh, earlier represented by BJP’s Manish Jaiswal.

Jaiprakash Bhai Patel, who had resigned from the BJP and unsuccessfully contested the Hazaribagh Lok Sabha predetermination from Congress, volition combat for the Mandu Assembly seat.

Health Minister Banna Gupta volition contention from Jamshedpur West, starring to a neck-and-neck contention with JD(U)’s Saryu Roy. In the past election, Roy had contested arsenic an Independent campaigner from Jamshedpur East defeating past BJP main curate Raghubar Das. However, with Roy contesting from Jamshedpur West successful this election, it volition beryllium a pugnacious contention for the incumbent Gupta, enactment sources said.

Minister Irfan Ansari volition contention from the Jamtara spot wherever helium volition instrumentality connected Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) co-founder Shibu Soren’s daughter-in-law Sita Soren of the BJP.

The Assembly elections successful Jharkhand volition beryllium held successful 2 phases connected November 13 and November 20, and results volition beryllium declared connected November 23. The ruling JMM-Congress harvester volition contention 70 of the state’s full 81 seats, leaving 11 seats for INDIA bloc allies specified arsenic the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Left.

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