Jharkhand polls: JMM-Congress to contest 70 seats, allies 11
Chief Minister Hemant Soren did not announce the number of constituencies each ally will fight the Assembly elections from.
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The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and the Congress will contest the Assembly elections in an alliance, Chief Minister Hemant Soren announced on Saturday.
The two INDIA bloc parties will contest 70 seats out of the 81 Assembly constituencies, Hemant Soren told reporters. Tejashwi Yadav-led Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Left parties will fight in the remaining 11 constituencies.
However, he said that he cannot at this moment provide details of how many seats each of the parties will contest.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal said it was unhappy with the seat-sharing arrangement.
“Last time we contested on seven seats because [party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav] had a big heart, his goal was to oust the BJP, and the goal is the same even today,” The Hindu quoted party leader Manoj Jha as saying. “We were runner-up on five seats. The rest of our alliance partners may not have been runners-up in percentage terms on that many seats.”
Jha added: “With a heavy heart, I must say that a unilateral decision was taken, we were asked that so and so number is given to us. This is not according to the strength of RJD nor according to the present situation. I will urge our alliance partners to make a decision accordingly.”
Voting in the Jharkhand polls will be conducted in two phases...
