Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2024 | BJP's Satyendra Nath Tiwari, Kamlesh Singh file nominations

Ranchi: BJP's Satyendra Nath Tiwari filed his nomination papers from Garhwa assembly seat on Wednesday in the presence of Union minister Satish Chandra Dubey.

Tiwari will contest against JMM candidate and Jharkhand minister Mithilesh Kumar Thakur, who had defeated him by 23,522 votes in the 2019 assembly polls from the seat.

"I will win the seat with a big margin, as this time I find no challenge from the seat," Tiwari told reporters after filing his nomination papers.

He claimed that Thakur, Jharkhand drinking water and sanitation department minister did nothing for the people of the constituency. "There are several charges of corruption against him," he alleged.

Dubey claimed that BJP would register a Haryana-like victory in Jharkhand and would form a government with full majority.

Another BJP nominee Kamlesh Singh, who recently shifted to the saffron party from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), filed his nomination papers from Hussainabad assembly seat in Palamu district.

"I feel proud of getting the opportunity to contest the polls on BJP ticket. I will win the seat with a big margin over 25,000 this time," Singh said.

Singh had defeated RJD's Sanjay Kumar Singh Yadav by 9,849 votes in 2019 assembly polls from the seat on NCP ticket.

Polling to the 81-member Jharkhand assembly in the state will be held in two phases on November 13 and 20, and votes will be counted on November 23.

Assembly Elections 2024 | The Maharashtra Assembly polls will take place against the backdrop of a fractured political landscape in the western state where the Shiv Sena and NCP will be going up against the Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar factions, even as the BJP and Congress try to make their mark. Meanwhile, in Jharkhand, the JMM faces a new challenge after Hemant Soren's recent arrest and Champai, a longstanding party member, joining the BJP. The Haryana election resulted in a shock loss for Congress, which was looking to galvanize on the Lok Sabha poll performance, while J&K also saw the grand old party eventually stepping away from the cabinet, with Omar Abdullah's JKNC forming government. It remains to be seen if the upcoming polls help BJP cement its position further or provide a fillip to I.N.D.I.A. Check live updates and track the latest coverage, live news, in-depth opinions, and analyses only on Deccan Herald.

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