Hemant Soren’s party Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) has released the list of 35 candidates for the Jharkhand elections. Along with Chief Minister Hemant Soren, his wife Kalpana Soren’s name also figures in this list.
Chief Minister of State and JMM Chief Hemant Soren will contest from Barhet seat while his wife Kalpana Soren will contest from Gandey seat. Three Muslim candidates have also been given entries in this JMM list.
Voting will be carried out in two phases in the state
Voting will be held in two phases in Jharkhand and the results will be known on November 23. In the first phase, voting will be held on 43 seats on November 13 and in the second phase, voting will be held on 38 seats on November 20. The counting of votes will then take place on November 23. According to the Election Commission, the total number of voters in Jharkhand is 2,55,18,642, of which the number of male voters is 1,29,97,325, while the number of female voters is 1,25,20,910. This means that women’s participation has increased.
Elections will be held for 81 seats in Jharkhand.
The Jharkhand Assembly elections will be held in November or December 2024 to elect the 81 members of the state assembly. The term of the Jharkhand Assembly will end on January 5, 2025. The last assembly elections were held in December 2019.
BJP-Congress has published the first list
Let us tell you that both the BJP and the Congress have released their first lists. The BJP had released its first list of 66 candidates, in which former CM Champai Soren was given a ticket from the Seraikela Vidhansabha seat. Champai Soren had left Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and joined the BJP. Along with this, Babulal Marandi has been sent from Dhanwar.
Talking about Congress, Congress has also released its first list, in which there are names of 21 candidates. Congress has given tickets to Irfan Ansari from Jamtara, Mamta Devi from Ramgarh, Munna Singh from Hazaribagh, Dr Ajay Kumar from Jamshedpur East, Ajay Nath Sahdev from Hatia, Bhushan Bara from Simdega.
