Jharkhand Election 2024: Seat Sharing Formula Finalized Between JMM-Congress | BJP Releases List of 66 Candidates, Champai Soren Secures Ticket; By-Election Candidates Also Announced

Jharkhand Election 2024: In the run-up to the Jharkhand Assembly Election 2024, the seat-sharing arrangement for the India Alliance has been finalized. Chief Minister Hemant Soren announced that out of 81 seats, JMM and Congress will contest on 70 seats, while RJD, CPM-ML, and other allies will contest the remaining seats. Details of specific candidates are yet to be confirmed. Meanwhile, BJP has released its first list of 66 candidates, including notable names like Sita Soren (Jamtara), Babu Lal Marandi (Dhanwar), and former CM Champai Soren, who will now contest from Saraikela on a BJP ticket after previously contesting for JMM.

Jharkhand Election 2024: Seat sharing formula decided between JMM and Congress, who will contest on how many seats, know the details

Seat sharing has been done among the alliance partners of India Alliance for Jharkhand assembly elections. Giving information to the media, Chief Minister Hemant Soren said that out of 81 assembly seats in Jharkhand, JMM and Congress will contest on 70 seats. Apart from this, RJD, CPM-ML and their other allies will contest on the remaining seats. CM Soren said that who will contest from where on these seats will be decided. 

However, the Chief Minister has not yet disclosed how many seats JMM and Congress will contest. JMM’s working president and Chief Minister Hemant Soren announced seat sharing in the presence of Congress’ Jharkhand in-charge Ghulam Ahmed Mir. However, representatives of RJD and Left parties were not present on this occasion. 

‘Talks going on with allies’

The Chief Minister said that right now talks are going on with the leaders of the alliance partners. Hemant Soren said that the talks with RJD and CPIL will also make it clear on which seats Congress and JMM will contest the elections.

Let us tell you that voting will be held in two phases in Jharkhand on 13th and 20th November. The counting of votes will be done on 23rd November. In Jharkhand, NDA has already divided the seats. Out of 81 seats in the state, BJP will contest on 68 seats, AJSU on 10 seats, JDU on 2 seats and LJP (Ram Vilas) on one seat. 

‘Claimed to return to power’

Earlier, Chief Minister Hemant Soren had claimed to return to power again on Friday. He said that he has full faith in his development work. His government has worked for all the tribals, poor and deprived. JMM is not just a party, but like a big tree. Under which about 3 crore people of Jharkhand are living in peace and harmony.

Let us tell you that in the 2019 assembly elections, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha contested on 43 seats and Congress on 31 seats. Out of which JMM won on 30 seats and Congress on 16 seats. RJD, which contested on seven seats, won only one seat. RJD’s performance was the worst in this election.

Jharkhand Election 2024: BJP released the list of 66 candidates for Jharkhand, Champai Soren got the ticket from here

BJP has released its first list of 66 candidates for Jharkhand. The party has given ticket to Sita Soren from Jamtara. BJP state president Babu Lal Marandi has been fielded from Dhanwar. 

The list of 66 candidates also includes the names of former CM Champai Soren, Geeta Balmuchu, former MP Geeta Koda, Meera Munda. Champai Soren will contest from Saraikela. Champai Soren contested the last election on a JMM ticket. 

Champai Soren’s son also got a ticket

BJP has given ticket to Sunil Soren from Dumka. Sunil Soren was an MP from BJP in 2019. However, in the 2024 elections, his ticket was cut and Sita Soren, who joined BJP from JMM, was given the ticket. At the same time, Champai Soren has got a ticket from his traditional seat Saraikela. Champai Soren’s son also got a ticket. The party has made Babulal Soren a candidate from Ghatsila.

Lobin Hembram, who had joined BJP from JMM, was also made a candidate by BJP. Lobin, who had rebelled during JMM’s floor test, had recently joined BJP.

Complete list of BJP candidates

1. Babulal Marandi from Dhanwar
2. Anant Ojha from Rajmahal
3. Lobin Hembrem from Borio
4. Babudhan Murmu from Litipara
5. Naveenat Hembrem from Maheshwar
6. Paritosh Soren from Shikaripara
7. Madhav Chandra Mahato from Nala
8. Sita Soren from Jamtara
9. Sunil Soren from Dumka
10. Devendra Kunwar from Jarmundi
11. Ganga Narayan Singh from Madhupur
13. Randhir Kumar Singh from Sarath
14. Narayan Das from Deoghar
15. Devendranath Singh from Podiyahat
16. Amit Kumar Mandal from Godda
17. Ashok Kumar Bhagat from Mahagama
18. Neera Yadav from Koderma
19. Amit Kumar Yadav from Barkatha
20, Manoj Yadav from Barhi
21. Roshan Lal Choudhary from Barkagaon
22. Pradeep Prasad from Hazaribagh
23. Ujjwal Das from Simaria
24 Nagendra Mahato from Bagodar
25 Manju Devi from Jamua
26 Munia Devi from Gande
27 Nirbhay Kumar Shahabadi from Giridih
28 Ravindra Pandey from Barmo
29. Biranchi Narayan from Bokaro
30. Amar Kumar Bauri from Chandankiyari
31 Tara Devi from Sindri
32. Aparna Sengupta from Nirsi
33. Raj Sinha from Dhanbad
34. Ragini Singh from Jharia
35. Shatrughan Mahato from Bhagmara
36. Dineshanand Goswami from Baharagora
37. Babulal Soren from Ghatshila
38. Mara Munda from Potka
39. Purnima Das Sahu from Jamshedpur East
40. Champai Soren from Seraikela
41. Geeta Balmuchu from Chaibasa
42. Barkunwar Gagrai from Mazgaon
43. Geeta Koda from Jagannathpur
44. Shashibhushan Samad from Chakradharpur
45. Sona Ram Bodra from Kharsawan 
46. Koche Munda from Torpa 
47. Neelkanth Singh Munda from Khunti 
48. Ram Kumar Pahan from Khijri 
49. C P Singh from Ranchi 
50. Naveen Jaiswal from Hatia 
51. Jitu Charan Ram from Kanke 
52. Sunny Toppo from Mandar 
53. Arun Oraon from Sisai 
54. Sudarshan Bhagat from Gumla 
55. Sameer Oraon from Bishunpur

List of BJP candidates for Lok Sabha by-election in one state and assembly by-election in 8 states has been released, see who got ticket from where

BJP Candidates List for By-elections

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday (October 19, 2024) released the list of candidates for the Lok Sabha and Assembly by-elections. In the list released late in the evening, the names of candidates were announced for the Lok Sabha seat of one state and for the assembly seats of eight states.  

BJP has given ticket to Navya Haridas from Wayanad Lok Sabha seat of Kerala, where she will contest against Congress’ Priyanka Gandhi. 

Talking about the Kerala assembly by-elections, the BJP has given a ticket to Nihar Ranjan Das of the Scheduled Caste from Dholai. Diganta Ghatovar has been fielded from Behali and Deeplu Ranjan Sharma from Samguri.

Talking about Bihar, Vishal Prashant has been fielded from Tarari and Ashok Kumar Singh from Ramgarh. 

Sunil Soni has entered the fray from Raipur City South of Chhattisgarh. 

Talking about Karnataka, Bharat Basavaraj Bommai has been given ticket from Shiggaon and Bangaru Hanumanth from Sandur. 

Talking about the Kerala Assembly by-election seat, Shri Krishna Kumar has been given ticket from Palakkad and K Balakrishnan from the Scheduled Caste reserved seat Chelakkara. 

Ramniwas Rawat has got the ticket from Vijaypur in Madhya Pradesh while Ramakant Bhargava has got the ticket from Budhni. 

If we talk about Rajasthan, Rajendra Bhambhu has been given ticket from Jhunjhunu assembly seat and Sukhwant Singh from Ramgarh, Jagmohan Meena from Dausa, Rajendra Gurjar from Deoli Uniara, Revant Ram Danga from Khinvsar, while Shanta Devi Meena has been given ticket from Salumbhar Scheduled Tribe reserved seat.

Talking about West Bengal, Deepak Kumar Roy has got the ticket from the Scheduled Caste reserved seat of Sitai, Rahul Lohar from the Scheduled Tribe reserved seat of Madarihat, Rupak Mitra from Naihati, Bimal Das from Haroa, Subhajit Roy from Medinipur and Ananya Roy Chakraborty from Taldangra have got the ticket. 

Voting will take place on November 13

Voting will be held on 13 November for 47 assembly seats in 13 states and the results will be declared on 23 November. The Election Commission also announced the dates for assembly elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand on 15 October.

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