Tag: Jharkhand-Assembly-Election

Jharkhand Assembly polls: JVM-P announces third list of candidates.

Source – indiatoday.in

A day after JMM MLA Shashi Bhushan Samad joined the JVM-P, he was given a party ticket to contest from Chakradharpur (ST) seat for Jharkhand Assembly polls.

Samad’s name featured in the third list of the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) announced on Sunday.

The JVM-P also fielded social activist Dayamani Barla from Khunti (ST) seat.

The other three candidates are Lohar Main Oraon (Sisai-ST), Dipak Karketta (Kolibera-ST) and Ramchandra Paswan (Jugsalai-SC), according to the list, a copy of which was released to the press.

JVM-P president and former chief minister Babulal Marandi has already announced that his party will contest on its own, breaking away from the oppositions ‘Mahagathbandhan’ that had been announced before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Samad joined the JVM-P on Saturday after Sukhram Oraon was given JMM ticket to contest from Chakradharpur (ST) constituency.

The five-phase Assembly polls in Jharkhand are scheduled between November 30 and December 20 with counting taking place on December 23.

LJP Ready to Contest Jharkhand Assembly Election on its Own: Chirag Paswan.

Source – news18.com

Patna: Lok Janshakti Party national president Chirag Paswan on Monday said the party is ready to contest the coming assembly poll in Jharkhand on its own. BJP has announced candidates for most of the seats in the state which the LJP had sought from the saffron party as a partner of the NDA.

Election for the 81-member Jharkhand Assembly will be held in five phases beginning on November 30. Paswan emphasised that LJP will not accept seats given to it in as “tokens” this time.

BJP, which is seeking to retain power in Jharkhand amid a determined bid by opposition parties, released its first list of 52 candidates on Sunday for the assembly polls.

Paswan had categorically said a few days ago that LJP would like to contest assembly elections in Jharkhand under the banner of NDA and conveyed this to the alliance leaders. “Now, there are no talks on contesting polls as an alliance. We will take a decision by late evening today as LJP is ready to contest assembly elections on its own,” he told reporters here.

LJP will not accept seats given to it as a “token” this time, Paswan said. “We had demanded six seats as part of the alliance(NDA) but BJP on Sunday declared candidates for most of the seats that we had demanded.”

“If we are offered seats under the alliance where our party (LJP) is not prepared properly or does not have strong candidates, then we will not contest such seats,” he said. The LJP leader said that the party’s Jharkhand unit has been for contesting the assembly polls on its own as the party’s organisation has become stronger and it has better candidates than before.

The state unit has sent a list of 37 seats to the party’s central office which it wants to contest, Paswan said.