There is a lot of discussion about the assembly elections in Jharkhand due to the roles of rebels, tactics of turncoats and infighting within various parties. The tenure of the current assembly will end on January 5, 2025, but voting for all 81 assembly seats here will be held in two phases on November 13 and 20. Although, there is talk of a direct contest between INDIA (India) and NDA alliances in the state, but on the ground, this time also like before, the main election battle will be between Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It is visible only in BJP). However, it is noteworthy that the unity of alliance between the parties is not visible in the NDA camp. Due to this, there is an atmosphere of despair and worry in the NDA camp, while on the other hand, there is definitely an atmosphere of enthusiasm and happiness in the NDA camp. Despite this, both the alliances are making loud claims of their respective victories. However, it will be known only on 23rd November that whose vehicle reaches the destination in the elections and whose vehicle remains stuck in the middle. However, there is a reason to be happy that in the last few years, the security forces have got great success in curbing Naxalite activities in the Naxalite-affected state of Jharkhand for a long time.
Talking about Vishrampur Assembly seat of the state, openly anti-India activities were seen here recently. It is noteworthy that after the distribution of seats, Vishrampur assembly constituency had gone to the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) quota, whereas as soon as RJD fielded its candidate Ramnaresh Singh from Vishrampur assembly, Congress too started showing its attitude. . The Congress party did not stop here, rather it staked its claim on Vishrampur assembly and gave the ticket to its leader Sudhir Kumar Chandravanshi. The situation reached to such an extent that Sudhir Kumar Chandravanshi increased the problems of his own alliance partner candidate Ramnaresh Singh of RJD by filing nomination from the area. It is believed that Congress has fielded its candidate on this seat due to the fear of RJD candidate losing the election from Vishrampur seat, because if RJD candidate loses the election to BJP candidate then INDIA alliance may have to suffer a big loss. . Let us tell you that once upon a time Vishrampur assembly seat was considered a strong fort of Congress. However, in the last two elections, its candidates have faced consecutive defeats, due to which the Congress fort appeared to be completely crumbling. At the same time, BJP’s account opened on this seat for the first time in 2014, when Ramchandra Chandravanshi, who left RJD and joined BJP, won the election.
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Then he repeated his victory well in 2019 also. This is the reason why the party has fielded him this time with the intention of scoring a hat-trick. There is no doubt that if the infighting within the NDA alliance is not ended in time, then the BJP candidate is sure to score a hat-trick. Similarly, due to the rebellious attitude of BJP leader Ravindra Rai, the election battle of BJP’s Babulal Marandi, who contested from Dhanwar assembly seat, seemed to be stuck in the initial phase, but BJP timely made Ravindra Rai the working president of Jharkhand BJP. Was successful in damage control, due to which Babulal Marandi’s crisis was soon averted. On the other hand, in the Dhanwar Assembly seat, once again the NDIA alliance’s vehicle seemed to be stuck, when two candidates of the alliance stood face to face. Actually, JMM’s Nizamuddin Ansari was challenging Babulal Marandi on this seat, which came in the share after seat sharing, but later CPI’s Rajkumar Yadav was also seen making waves in the electoral battle of Dhanwar. Obviously, with two candidates of the same alliance contesting from the same seat, the votes of the NDIA alliance are bound to get scattered and if the NDIA alliance does not do damage control in time, then Babulal Marandi’s victory will become very easy.
Similarly, Chhatarpur assembly seat of Jharkhand is also likely to fall prey to the infighting within the INDIA alliance. It is noteworthy that Chhatarpur assembly seat had gone to Congress from the alliance side in mutual distribution, after which Congress gave ticket to its well-known leader Radhakrishna Kishore. Let us tell you that Radhakrishna Kishore has been a traveling leader of many parties and currently he is contesting elections from Congress. Even before this, he had won elections from Chhatarpur assembly seat five times. Out of these, he has succeeded in becoming MLA thrice from Congress quota, once from JDU and once from BJP. However, this time their vehicle seems to be stuck in the mud of mutual opposition and discord. In fact, as soon as Radhakrishna Kishore filed his nomination papers from the Congress quota, the angry RJD partner of the INDIA alliance started showing its attitude. The situation reached such a stage that RJD made Vijay Ram its candidate. Now Congress candidate Radhakrishna Kishore, who is trying his luck from here for the sixth time, is worried that his election vehicle might get derailed. However, if INDIA alliance does not change its equations in Vishrampur, Dhanwar and Chhatarpur assembly seats of the state and its candidates continue to crowd among themselves, then they may have to hum this song after the elections – ‘Mujhe to Apno ne Loota, Gairon Mein’ Where was the strength, my boat sank where there was less water.
-Chetnaditya Alok
Senior journalist, litterateur and political analyst, Ranchi, Jharkhand
