The Jharkhand polls shall be held in two phases on November 13 and November 20.
New Delhi:
The Congress launched its first listing of 21 candidates for the Jharkhand Meeting polls on Monday evening, fielding Finance Minister Rameshwar Oraon from the Lohardaga seat reserved for Scheduled Tribes.
Senior Congress chief and the social gathering’s in-charge for Tripura, Odisha and Nagaland, Ajoy Kumar, will contest the election from the Jamshedpur East constituency.
The previous police officer, who has been a Lok Sabha MP from Jamshedpur previously, is contesting the Meeting polls this time.
Mr Oraon, additionally a former police officer, is a former Jharkhand Congress chief.
Amongst others, Shipli Neha Tirkey has been fielded from the Mandar (ST) constituency. She is the incumbent MLA from the seat. Her father, Bandhu Tirkey, is the chairman of the Congress’s manifesto committee for the Jharkhand polls.
Earlier, the highest Congress management, together with social gathering president Mallikarjun Kharge, former social gathering chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, together with a number of senior leaders, deliberated on the candidates’ names at a gathering of the social gathering’s Central Election Committee.
The Congress is in an alliance with the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) in Jharkhand and at the moment shares energy within the jap state.
The Jharkhand polls shall be held in two phases on November 13 and November 20, and the counting of votes shall be taken up on November 23.
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