Voting for the second phase of Jharkhand assembly elections is to be held on November 20. In such a situation, election campaigning is in full swing in the state. Irfan Ansari is contesting from Jamtara Assembly seat of the state on Congress ticket on behalf of India Alliance. Whereas Sita Soren is contesting from NDA on Bharatiya Janata Party ticket. The main competition is believed to be between these two. However, some independent candidates are also in the electoral fray.
3 candidates are contesting on this seat
Actually, 13 candidates have contested the election from Jamtara seat. Of which Irfan Ansari of Congress, Ahmed Hussain of Jharkhand People’s Party, Arif Ansari of BSP, Lakhanlal Mandal of CPI(M), Sita Soren of BJP, Kuldeep Yadav of Hindustan People’s Party (Democratic), Tarun Kumar Gupta from Jharkhand Loktantrik Krantikari Morcha. , Baleshwar Mandal from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
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Mukesh Murmu, Riyad Ahmed, Akbar Ansari, Shatrughan Pandit, Sujit Das are trying their luck on this seat as independent candidates. But it is believed that in such a situation, Congress’s Irfan Ansari’s game may get spoiled.
History of Jamtara seat
This seat comes under Dumka district. It is part of Dumka Lok Sabha constituency. Let us tell you that Jamtara has always been in the news regarding fraud cases. According to the 2011 census, the population here was 29,415. Of which 89 percent were Hindus and 10 percent were Muslims. The literacy rate of Jamtara is 63.73 percent.
number of voters
According to Election Commission data, there are 1,65,820 voters in Jamtara region during the 2019 assembly elections. Out of which 83,310 are male voters and 81,723 are female voters. In the year 2014, the number of voters in this assembly constituency was 1,91,876. Out of which 99,704 were male voters and 91,424 were female voters.
