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At least 25 prominent politicians from the opposition ranks, who had been facing probes by Central agencies in corruption cases, have switched to the (BJP) since 2014, when Narendra Modi was first sworn in Prime Minister of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government.
The bail for former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Friday gives the JMM-led coalition government in his state a much-needed shot in the arm in the run-up to the Assembly polls due later this year.
THOUGH they recorded an improvement from the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, INDIA bloc parties in Jharkhand remained behind the NDA in terms of Assembly segments – a worrying sign for the coalition ahead of the state polls later this year. This is despite the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) making gains on account of sympathy vote over the arrest of its senior leader and former chief minister Hemant Soren.
DESPITE several measures to reach out to tribals in Jharkhand, the BJP was not able to win any of the five Scheduled Tribe-reserved seats in the state. In four of these, its margin of defeat was over 1.2 lakh votes.
Even though the BJP in Jharkhand is leading in eight Lok Sabha seats out of 14, senior party leader and Union minister Arjun Munda is trailing by more than one lakh votes from his Khunti constituency, a Scheduled Tribes (ST)- reserved seat.
Kolkata set to vote in the final Lok Sabha election phase on June 1, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold his first roadshow in this poll season in Kolkata on Tuesday evening.
In all the seven seats in Jharkhand that had voted till May 20, the turnout among women outnumbered the men in each. Of the 39 Assembly segments that fall within the seven Lok Sabha seats – half of Jharkhand’s total 14 – only in three was the polling participation of men higher.
At a wedding resort “Utsav Upvan” at Giridih in Jharkhand on Thursday night, the reporters are making a beeline to interview Kalpana Soren, wife of jailed Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) executive president and ex-chief minister Hemant Soren, who is making her electoral debut from the Gandey Assembly constituency.
THE ARREST of former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren was seen as one potent issue around which the Opposition INDIA bloc could rally together. The ease with which Hemant’s wife Kalpana Murmu Soren slipped unofficially into her husband’s role in the party was also heartening for Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) ranks. Framing this contest as one between her jailed husband and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, she recently posted: “Braveheart Soren stays in everyone’s hearts. His every work has reached people’s hearts. How can you extract him out of people’s hearts?”