Jaganathpur Assembly Elections 2019 | A known bastion of the Madhu Koda family, the constituency of Jaganathpur, located in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, will go to polls in the second phase of the Jharkhand Assembly Election on 7 December.
The constituency, reserved for Scheduled Tribes, was represented by Geeta Koda of the Jai Bharat Samanta Party until the 2019 Lok Sabha election when Koda won from the Singhbhum Parliamentary constituency on a Congress ticket. In fact, she was the only Congress leader to have won from Jharkhand in the Lok Sabha election. Her husband Madhu Koda is a former chief minister of Jharkhand and a convict in a mining scam.
For the upcoming election, Geeta has offered her support to Congress candidate Sona Ram Sinku, who faces a tough challenge from BJP candidate Sudhir Sundi.
Results in previous three elections:
In 2005, Madhu Koda won from the seat as an Independent. In 2009 and 2014, Geeta Koda of the Jai Bharat Samanta Party won the election from the constituency.
Following is a brief description of the Assembly constituency (as of 2014):
Constituency number: 54
Voter turnout in last Assembly election: 70.92 percent
Major parties in the fray
The BJP, JD(U), JMM, JVM, CPI, SP, BSP and Marxist Co-ordination are the main parties from the seat.
At present, the state is ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in an alliance with the All Jharkhand Students' Union (AJSU) under the leadership of Chief Minister Raghubar Das.
The term of the current Assembly will end on 5 January 2020.
In 2014, the BJP had won 37 seats, while its ally AJSU secured a win in five Assembly seats.
Among the Opposition parties, the RJD, Congress and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) have formed an alliance for the polls under the leadership of JMM chief Hemant Soren. Soren is also the Opposition Alliance's chief ministerial candidate.
The BJP is hoping to retain power in Jharkhand following setbacks and winning fewer seats in both the Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly election as compared to the 2014 polls in the two states. However, several of the NDA allies, including BJP's current Jharkhand alliance partner AJSU, have decided to contest the 2019 Assembly polls on their own. Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and the Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) are also contesting the polls solo.
Out of the 81 Assembly constituencies in the state, nine are reserved for Scheduled Castes, 28 for Scheduled Tribes and 44 are of the general category. According to the Election Commission, the state's population stands at 3.2 crore, of which 86 lakh are ST and 39 lakh are ST.
The state has a total number of 2,08,52,808 electors, including Service Voters. As per the electoral rolls in January 2019, there are 1.18 crore male voters, 1.08 crore female voters and 40,336 Service Voters.
The number of polling stations in 2014 was 24,803.
After Maharashtra and Haryana, Jharkhand is the third state to go to polls since Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the Lok Sabha election with a thumping majority in May this year.
The 82-member Jharkhand Assembly is being held in five phases between 30 November and 20 December with the counting of votes scheduled to take place on 23 December. The first phase of polling concluded in 13 seats in on 30 November.
December 06, 2019 at 04:15PM
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