Congress Releases Final List For Jharkhand Assembly Polls

Voting in these two constituencies is slated for November 20 in the second phase while the last date for filing nominations is October 29.

 The Congress has released its final list of candidates for the Jharkhand Assembly elections, naming Shweta Singh from Bokaro and Ajay Dubey from Dhanbad.

Voting in these two constituencies is slated for November 20 in the second phase while the last date for filing nominations is October 29.

Shweta Singh was the Congress candidate from Bokaro in the 2019 Assembly polls, in which she was defeated by BJP's Biranchi Narayan by about 10,000 votes. She is the daughter-in-law of late Samaresh Singh, who was a former MLA from Bokaro and one of the stalwart leaders of Jharkhand.