Jharkhand Election Results 2019 LIVE Updates: Will Congress-JMM unseat BJP? Counting to begin at 8

Jharkhand Assembly Election Results 2019 Today Live Updates: In the 2014 Assembly elections, the BJP had bagged 37 seats and formed the government with alliance partner AJSU that won five seats. The JMM and the Congress won 17 and 6 seats, respectively.




Jharkhand Election Results 2019 LIVE Updates: Coming on the back of below-par performances in Haryana and the failure to stay in government in Maharashtra, the results of the Jharkhand Assembly elections will be crucial for the ruling BJP. Raghubar Das, the first CM to complete five years in office, faces anti-incumbency, rural distress, resentment over lack of jobs and even a divide within over the choice of poll candidates.

On the other hand, the Opposition alliance, led by Hemant Soren’s Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and which includes Congress and RJD, will look to unseat the saffron party and return to power in the tribal-dominated state. That Jharkhand should have a double-engine government — Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi and Chief Minister Raghubar Das in Ranchi — for its growth has been the main narrative of the BJP in this Assembly election. JMM-Congress, meanwhile, has kept its campaign in Jharkhand state-centric.

Exit polls for the Assembly elections in Jharkhand have predicted a lead for the JMM-Congress-RJD alliance in the 81-member House. While the India Today-Axis survey has predicted that the Opposition alliance is likely to form the next government, the IANS-C Voter-ABP poll has predicted a hung Assembly. Both polls indicated that the All Jharkhand Students’ Union (AJSU) and the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajantrik) (JVM-P) is likely to win 3-5 seats each and could end up as “kingmakers”.

Will BJP, under CM Raghubar Das, retain power or will the Congress-JMM-RJD alliance, led by Hemant Soren, unseat the saffron party. Follow Jharkhand Election Results 2019 LIVE Updates here

Highlights

The most prominent candidates in the election are Chief Minister Raghubar Das, his predecessor Hemant Soren, All Jharkhand Students Union president Sudesh Mahto and the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha’s Babulal Marandi.

Welcome to The Indian Express live blog on Jharkhand election results. The counting of votes will begin at 8 am. Will BJP, under CM Raghubar Das, retain power or will the Congress-JMM-RJD alliance, led by Hemant Soren, unseat the saffron party? Follow this space to track the latest developments on Jharkhand results

Jharkhand Election Results 2019 LIVE Updates: While BJP has given a call for “abki baar 65 paar”, important constituencies like Jamshedpur (East), Jamshedpur (West), Dumka, Latehar, Daltonganj, Chatarpur, Hussainabad, Chaibasa may prove decisive in which way the state will swing. The results of Jamshedpur East constituency will be keenly watched, where expelled BJP leader and former minister Saryu Roy contested as an Independent against Raghubar Das after the saffron party did not give him a ticket to contest elections. Apart from Das and Roy, Congress’ Gourav Vallabh and JVM’s Abhay Singh are also in the fray from the constituency. In Jamshedpur West, the BJP has fielded newcomer Devender Singh against Congress candidate and former MLA Banna Gupta. AIMIM and JVMP are also in the fray.

Opposition chief ministerial candidate Hemant Soren, who is contesting from two constituencies — Dumka and Barhait, is expected to win both the seats since the tribal-dominated region is considered a bastion of his father Shibu Soren and his Jharkhand Mukti Morcha. However, in 2014 BJP made inroads in the region, winning seven of the 18 assembly seats and its leader Sunil Soren defeating Shibu Soren from Dumka.

In the 2014 Assembly elections, the BJP had bagged 37 seats and formed the government with alliance partner AJSU that won five seats. Six MLAs of the Babulal Marandi-led JVM-P joined the BJP soon after the elections. The JMM and the Congress won 17 and 6 seats, respectively.

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