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Jharkhand Assembly Polls: Congress Releases Another List Of Candidates

Earlier On Saturday, Congress Fielded Its National Spokesperson Gourav Vallabh To Take On Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das In The Upcoming Assembly Elections.

News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Raghwendra Shukla | Updated on: 17 Nov 2019, 10:40:28 PM
With today list, the total number of candidates declared so far by the Congress for the Jharkhand elections is 30.

New Delhi:

The Congress on Sunday released another list of three candidates for the upcoming Assembly Election in Jharkhand. The names in the list are - Sona Ram Sinku from Jaganathpur, Suresh Baitha from Kanke and Sunny Toppo from Mandar. With today list, the total number of candidates declared so far by the Congress for the Jharkhand elections is 30.

Earlier on Saturday, Congress fielded its national spokesperson Gourav Vallabh to take on Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das in the upcoming assembly elections.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi approved Vallabh's candidature from the Jamshedpur East assembly constituency, while fielding Mamta Devi from the Ramgarh seat, a party statement said.

"I am ready for the challenge to take on the chief minister. The people of Jharkhand have been duped and I will emerge victorious in this electoral contest," said Vallabh, who recently went viral on internet after a showdown with BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra at a TV debate.

Jharkhand will vote in five phases, with the first on November 30 and the last on December 20. Results will be declared on December 23.

The Jarkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), the Congress and Lalu Prasad Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal had recently announced a pre-poll tie-up for the state with former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren as the alliance's CM face.

The Congress will contest 31 seats out of 81 seats in the Jharkhand assembly. The RJD will contest on seven seats, while the largest chunk of the alliance share has gone to the JMM, which will contest elections on 43 seats.

With PTI Inputs

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First Published : 17 Nov 2019, 10:28:35 PM

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