Jharkhand Assembly polls: Lalu Prasad plays peacemaker to bring truce between JMM and RJD
The Hindu
RJD and JMM reach seat sharing agreement for Jharkhand Assembly election, forming alliance with INDIA bloc.
After the intervention of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Chief Lalu Prasad, the party’s seat sharing talks with the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) ahead of Jharkhand Assembly election reached a conclusion on Tuesday (October 22, 2024) following which RJD released its list of candidates for six seats.
Both parties have agreed to contest the election in alliance with the INDIA bloc.
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav met Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday morning and both had a short meeting before holding talks with the Jharkhand leadership of RJD.
Sources said that Mr. Prasad spoke to Mr. Soren over phone and talks were held between them for some time following which Mr. Soren agreed to give six seats to RJD.
“People of Jharkhand will teach a lesson to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which ruled the State for maximum years and ruined it. We all had talks with the respective leaders and decided to contest the election together as INDIA bloc. Once again, we will defeat BJP and Hemant Soren will become the Chief Minister,” Mr. Yadav said while speaking to the media outside a hotel in Ranchi.
At 9 p.m. on Tuesday, RJD released the list of its six candidates which includes Suresh Paswan from Deoghar, Sanjay Prasad Yadav from Godda, Subhas Yadav from Koderma, Rashmi Prakash (daughter in law of sitting MLA Satyanand Bhokta) from Chatra, Naresh Prasad Singh from Bishrampur, and Sanjay Kumar Singh Yadav from Hussainabad.
The picture is now clear over the seat sharing in INDIA bloc as Jharkhand Congress State president Keshav Mahato Kamlesh, who returned to Ranchi from Delhi on Tuesday, made it clear that Congress will contest on 30 seats out of which 21 names were announced last night.