Arjun Munda, Raghuvar Das, Babulao Marandi and Hemant Soren
The Jharkhand Assembly elections, which will be held in two phases, will be very interesting. More than 1,200 candidates are in the election fray this time, including Chief Minister Hemant Soren, the daughter-in-law of His Excellency the Governor, the wife of a former Union Minister, five former Chief Ministers, ministers, ex-ministers and several MPs in exercise. 683 candidates are contesting for 43 seats in the first phase, while 528 candidates are contesting for 38 assembly seats in the second phase. The 3.5 million people of Jharkhand will decide the fate of these 1,211 candidates.
Among the many veteran candidates present in the electoral arena are Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha candidate from Barhet assembly seat, Sudesh Kumar Mahato, AJSU party supremo from Silli seat, daughter-in-law of the governor of Odisha, Raghuvar Das, Purnima Das of Jamshedpur East. , former chief minister Champai Soren from Seraikela, while his son Babulal Soren is the candidate from Ghatshila.
Whereas former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi is from Dhanwar, former Chief Minister Madhu Koda’s wife Geeta Koda is from Jagannathpur seat, former Chief Minister and former Union Minister Arjun Munda’s wife Meera Munda is from Potka, while Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s wife Kalpana Soren is a candidate. from the headquarters of the Gandeya Assembly. Along with this, many Jharkhand government ministers, many sitting MLAs along with former ministers and former MLAs are also in the electoral arena.
Many important equations in this election.
Many important equations are also being seen in these elections. This time, families of veteran leaders who participated in the 1990s elections entered the 2024 electoral field to manage their political legacy, including former Chief Minister Champai Soren and his son Babulal Soren Ghatshila to continue their political legacy. electoral arena since then.
Raghuvar Das’ daughter-in-law is in the fray for the Jamshedpur East seat.
Former Chief Minister Raghuvar Das has been winning from Jamshedpur East seat continuously since 1995. Saryu Rai stopped the victory bandwagon of Raghuvar Das in the year 2019. Saryu Rai became MLA from Jamshedpur East by defeating Raghuvar Das. After this, Raghuvar Das was appointed as the governor of Odisha. This time her daughter-in-law Purnima Das has entered the electoral arena for the first time to take charge of the political legacy of Sahu Raghuvar Das. Meera Munda, wife of former state chief minister Arjun Munda, who was active in Kolhan in the 90s, will occupy the Potka seat for the first time to carry on her political legacy.
Former MP Geeta Koda returns to the electoral arena
At the same time, to save her impregnable fort in Jagannathpur in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, former MP Geeta Koda is once again entering the electoral arena as a BJP candidate. Her husband Madhu Koda also contested and won the elections from the same seat and became the first independent Chief Minister of the state. At the same time, senior Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader and current Singhbhum MP Joba Manjhi has handed over the responsibility of increasing his political legacy on the shoulders of his son Jagat Manjhi. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha has named Jagat Manjhi, son of MLA-turned-MP Joba Manjhi, its candidate from the Manoharpur assembly seat.
After the assassination of MP Joba Manjhi’s husband Devendra Manjhi in 1994, she contested elections from the Manoharpur Assembly seat in 1995 to take up her husband’s legacy and become an MLA for the first time. Joba Manjhi’s political status can be gauged from the fact that she has held the post of minister four times in the state so far. Her husband Devendra Manjhi was also a strong leader and during the division of Bihar, he became MLA from Chakradharpur in 1980 and Manoharpur in 1985. However, he was assassinated in the year 1994.
A total of 28 candidates are in the fray for the Jamshedpur West seat.
This time, the maximum number of candidates in the assembly elections is concentrated in the Jamshedpur West seat, from where the main contest will be contested between Saryu Rai, known as Chanakya in politics, and state government minister Banna Gupta. However, a total of 28 candidates are in the fray for this seat, while the least is in the Deoghar seat in Jharkhand, where 7 candidates are in the fray. Also, 27 candidates from Hatia seat in Jharkhand, 26 candidates from Barkagaon, Jamshedpur East and 24 candidates from Dhanwar are in the electoral arena while the fate of 9 candidates is being decided in Barhet, one of the most popular seats in Jharkhand , where Chief Minister Hemant Soren is in the election fray. The public will decide. So far 24 FIRs have been registered for violation of code of conduct in Jharkhand. With this, illegal material and cash worth Rs 135.70 million have been seized so far.
