Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2024 | Congress fields Sweta Singh from Bokaro, Ajay Dubey from Dhanbad

New Delhi: The Congress on Monday released its final list of two candidates for the Jharkhand assembly polls, fielding Sweta Singh from Bokaro and Ajay Dubey from Dhanbad.

The party has declared a total of 30 candidates for the assembly polls that will be held in two phases in November.

Earlier, the Congress had declared two lists of 21 and seven candidates.

The Congress-Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) alliance is in power in the eastern state.

The Jharkhand polls will be held in two phases on November 13 and November 20, and the counting of votes will be taken up 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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