congress has released its first list of candidates for the jharkhand assembly elections. In the first list released on monday (21 October), congress has currently given tickets to 21 candidates. This list was released a few hours after the meeting of the Central election Committee (CEC) of the Congress. It includes the names of state government's Finance minister Rameshwar Oraon, congress Working Committee member ajay Kumar and some other ministers.
Rameshwar Oraon has been re-nominated from his current Lohardaga seat. Former indian Police service officer ajay Kumar has been given a ticket from jamshedpur East assembly constituency. Kumar has also been a lok sabha member from Jamshedpur. State Rural Development minister Irfan Ansari has been re-nominated from his current constituency Jamtara, while health minister Banna Gupta has been nominated from jamshedpur West.
Deepika Pandey gets ticket from Mahagama
Agriculture minister Deepika Pandey Singh has been made a candidate from Mahagama once again. She is currently an mla from this seat. congress has announced these candidates amid the ongoing deadlock in the ruling alliance over seat sharing. congress said on monday night that on tuesday the whole picture will be clear about who will contest on how many seats.
RJD expressed displeasure over seats
jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and congress had announced on saturday that both the parties will contest on 70 out of 81 assembly seats in the state and other allies of the alliance will contest on the remaining seats. Expressing displeasure over this announcement, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) had said on sunday that less than 12 seats would not be acceptable to it.
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