Jharkhand Vidhansabha Chunav 2024: With the primary section of the Jharkhand meeting elections solely a fortnight away, the political events have upped their campaigning and efforts to woo the voters. Of the 81-member meeting seat, sure seats have witnessed an in depth encounter whereas some have been strongholds of both the BJP or the Congress. With 42 seats being the bulk mark, the BJP and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) are working to realize an higher hand on seats which have historically witnessed an in depth contest.
These 9 seats are Kodarma, Mandhu, Baghmara, Jarmundi, Deoghar, Godda, Simdega, Nala, and Jama. Within the 2019 meeting elections, the BJP had gained 5 and the 2 seats every went to the JMM and the Congress. Nonetheless, the Jharkhand Lok Sabha ballot consequence gave an edge to the BJP-All Jharkhand College students Union (AJSU) alliance a lead in eight of those 9 seats.
The election to those seats has additionally turn into essential as a result of the voters are all set to witness a united combat between two blocs – NDA and INDIA. Whereas AJSU, JDU, BJP and LJP are a part of the NDA, Congress, JMM, RJD and Left represent the INDIA bloc.
Within the 2019 meeting elections, the bottom victory margin in these 9 seats was in Simdega the place Bhushan Bara of Congress defeated Shradhanand Besra of the BJP by 285 votes. In Baghmera, the BJP narrowly edged out the Congress by 824 votes. Within the constituencies it didn’t win, the BJP secured the second place in 4 of them. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), a associate of the JMM and Congress, was the runner-up in three constituencies, whereas the Congress and the AJSU every took second place in a single constituency. Among the many intently contested seats that the BJP managed to flip in 2019, it had positioned as runner-up in three of them 5 years prior. This included Torpa, the place the get together narrowly misplaced to the JMM by simply 43 votes.
The meeting polls in Jharkhand will happen in two phases – the primary section on November 13 and the second section on November 20. The counting of votes will happen on November 23.
