Voting for the 81 seats of the Jharkhand Meeting will likely be held in two phases on November 13 and 20.
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The Congress has launched its closing checklist of candidates for the Jharkhand Meeting elections, naming Shweta Singh from Bokaro and Ajay Dubey from Dhanbad.
Voting in these two constituencies is slated for November 20 within the second part whereas the final date for submitting nominations is October 29.
Shweta Singh was the Congress candidate from Bokaro within the 2019 Meeting polls, wherein she was defeated by BJP’s Biranchi Narayan by about 10,000 votes. She is the daughter-in-law of late Samaresh Singh, who was a former MLA from Bokaro and one of many stalwart leaders of Jharkhand.
Ajay Dubey, who has been made a candidate from Dhanbad meeting seat, has been related to the Congress for a very long time and has held many posts within the social gathering. He contested because the Congress candidate from Dhanbad Lok Sabha seat in 2014, and was defeated by BJP’s P.N. Singh by greater than 2.92 lakh votes.
Congress has thus far declared candidates for 30 seats in Jharkhand. In its first checklist, the social gathering named 21 candidates, within the second checklist it nominated seven candidates, and the remaining two candidates had been named within the third checklist launched late on Monday — with only a day left for submitting nomination.
The social gathering has denied ticket to solely one among its present MLAs in Jharkhand. Congress legislator from Barhi seat Umashankar Akela, after being denied a ticket by the social gathering, has entered the fray on the Samajwadi Social gathering ticket.
Voting for the 81 seats of the Jharkhand Meeting will likely be held in two phases on November 13 and 20, whereas the counting of votes is slated for November 23.
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