The country has been waiting for the results of the Jharkhand assembly elections for a month. Everyone wants to know if Hemant Soren will return or end the Bharatiya Janata Party’s five-year exile. Actually, voting was held in two phases in all seats in the state. As for the Sarath seat, voting was done here in the second phase. This seat belonging to Deoghar district was primarily seen as a contest between JMM and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha had named Uday Shankar Singh as its candidate. While the Bharatiya Janata Party had fielded Randhir Kumar Singh. The same two candidates also contested the assembly elections in 2019. But the parties of these candidates were different then. Randhir Singh was in BJP at that time, but Uday Shankar Singh was contesting on the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha – Prajatantrik ticket. Randhir Singh won that election by a margin of about 29,000 votes.
Electoral history: 2000 until now
In the year 2000, Shashank Shekhar had won the elections from this seat on Jharkhand Mukti Morcha ticket. But he couldn’t maintain his winning streak for long. Uday Kumar Singh replaced him in the 2005 elections. This was the first assembly election after the formation of Jharkhand. Rashtriya Janata Dal had named Singh its candidate in the 2005 elections and Singh did not disappoint the party. Uday Shankar Singh had earlier won elections as a Congress candidate in the 1990s.
Well, 2009 came. Shashank Shekhar once again returned with the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha ticket. But he could not win the elections again. Randhir Kumar Singh won the legislative elections twice in a row in the assembly elections of 2014 and 2019. However, both times his party was different. In 2014, he managed to hoist the victory flag on the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha ticket, while in 2019 he managed to hoist the victory flag as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate.
