The Rashtriya Janata Occasion (RJD) emerged as a shock issue within the Jharkhand Meeting polls, successful 4 of the six seats it contested in alliance with the JMM, the Congress and the CPI-ML(L).
RJD’s Naresh Prasad Singh received the Bishrampur seat by defeating BJP’s sitting MLA Ramchandra Chandravanshi by a margin of 14,587 votes. Singh acquired 32.34% votes.
RJD’s Sanjay Prasad Yadav received Godda by a margin of 21,471 votes, defeating BJP’s sitting MLA Amit Kumar Mandal. In 2019, Mandal had defeated Sanjay Prasad by 4,512 votes.
In SC-reserved Deoghar, RJD’s Suresh Paswan defeated BJP’s sitting MLA Narayan Das by 39,721 votes. In Hussainabad, RJD’s Sanjay Kumar Singh Yadav defeated BJP’s Kamlesh Kumar Singh by 34,364 votes.
In Koderma, BJP’s sitting MLA Neera Yadav defeated RJD’s Subhash Prasad Yadav by a margin of 5,815 votes. An Impartial candidate, Shalini Gupta, performed the spoilsport for RJD; she received 69,537 votes to remain on the third place.
The RJD confronted defeat in Chatra constituency the place its candidate Rashmi Prakash misplaced to Lok Janshakti Occasion (Ram Vilas) candidate Janardhan Paswan by 18,401 votes.
Prakash is the daughter-in-law of state minister Satyanand Bhokta, who received the seat in 2019. Chatra is an SC-reserved seat and after his caste was named on the ST record a few years in the past, Bhokta fielded his daughter-in-law who belongs to the SC group on the RJD ticket.
The BJP gave the Chatra seat to its NDA ally LJP (Ram Vilas) which fielded Janardan Paswan who had misplaced the election to the constituency on a BJP ticket in 2019. Janardan Paswan joined the LJP final month solely.
The Jharkhand election consequence has given a hope of revival to the RJD, whose efficiency within the state was always declining for the reason that formation of the state. Within the first Meeting elections held in 2005, the RJD had contested 51 seats and received seven. Within the subsequent elections in 2009, the occasion contested 56 seats and received solely 5. In 2014, the occasion contested on 14 seats and didn’t win any seat. In 2019, the RJD contested on seven seats and received just one — Chatra.
RJD’s Jharkhand spokesperson Rakesh Sharma mentioned, “That is the win of the technique of INDIA bloc and our unity. Our voters stayed consolidated as a result of they’d determined — na katenge na batenge.” He mentioned the RJD would have received Chatra seat too however inner sabotage brought about the occasion’s defeat there.
A JMM chief mentioned the RJD improved its tally and the Congress maintained its energy within the Jharkhand Meeting as a result of the tribal voters maintained their belief in Chief Minister Hemant Soren.
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