Arjun Munda, Raghuvar Das, Babulao Marandi and Hemant Soren
This time the Election Commission has announced that it will hold the Legislative Assembly elections in two phases in Jharkhand. In the first phase, 43 seats in the 81-member assembly will be voted on. The processes of withdrawal of nominations and scrutiny of the first phase have been completed. Now the candidates in the electoral field do not want to spare any effort in the campaign. The first phase of voting will take place on November 13. The hustle and bustle of festivals and tight schedules at the end of October and the first week of November have created problems for the candidates.
In fact, a large number of people from Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh have been living in Jharkhand for years in connection with factories and government jobs. During long holidays or festivals like Diwali-Bhai Dooj-Chhath, these people go to their villages in Bihar and Purvanchal to celebrate the festivals. In such a situation, the candidates are worried about these people, who are now the voters of Jharkhand. Go to their native villages during festivals like Chhath Mahaparva. Will they return until the voting date or not? There is also a weekend after Chhath. There is also concern that in the first phase candidates will have less time to campaign because there are long vacations. Urban voters and migrants are considered BJP voters.
Will he return until the voting date or not?
In such a situation, there is special concern over this issue among BJP candidates. It is no less than a challenge for the BJP to win back the large number of working class voters who have left the state and convert them into vote banks. In such a situation, the BJP has handed over the responsibility to the leaders of the state organization. The leaders and workers of the BJP organization are reaching out to people through different mediums and are asking people leaving the state to return soon after the puja ends and exercise their right to vote.
Jharkhand BJP vice-president Ravindra Rai has said that people from our organization have asked people leaving the state to return as soon as possible after the puja ends. BJP leaders also argue that if many voters go to their native places outside Jharkhand on Chhath festival, then Jharkhand natives working in Delhi, Mumbai, Surat, Hyderabad and other cities outside Jharkhand spend Diwali and Chhath Puja on the occasion of the BJP. People are also returning to their towns and cities in the state, which is a good sign for the BJP. For this, the BJP is also reaching out to those states at their level so that the industrial units in Surat, Delhi, Mumbai where they work can give an opportunity to these native Jharkhand voters to stay in the state till the first phase of voting so that can vote.
Railways starts special trains for return of voters to Jharkhand
Besides, the Ministry of Railways is also running special trains for the return of these voters to Jharkhand after holidays. Although the Railway Ministry operates special trains on Diwali and Chhath, in view of the Jharkhand elections, the number of special trains running between Jharkhand and Bihar has been increased this time. Most of the people and migrants from Bihar and Purvanchal work in the industrial cities of Dhanbad and Tatanagar in Jharkhand. In such a situation, the number of Chhath special trains from Dhanbad, Tatanagar to Darbhanga, Arrah, Patna, Sasaram, Gorakhpur etc. has been increased. in Bihar, so that after celebrating Chhath, the workers can return to Jharkhand and participate in voting.
Jharkhand Election Commission is also taking serious action
The Jharkhand Election Commission is also taking serious steps regarding the voting of migrant workers. The State Election Commission and local administration have set up counseling centers at railway and bus stations to encourage migrant workers to return after Diwali and Chhath festivals and exercise their right to vote in the first phase of elections. .
Entry: Rupesh Kumar
