Marandi Announces NDA United Offensive to Win Ghatshila Seat in Jharkhand
United NDA targets JMM’s seat in Jharkhand by-election.
Jharkhand BJP President Babulal Marandi declared that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will launch a unified and aggressive campaign to seize the Ghatshila assembly seat from the ruling JMM-led coalition in the upcoming bypoll on November 11. The by-election, announced by the Election Commission, follows the death of JMM’s Ramdas Soren, the former education minister, on August 15.
Ramdas Soren had secured the Ghatshila seat in 2024, defeating BJP’s Babulal Soren, and previously won in 2009 and 2019, with a loss to BJP’s Lakshman Tudu in 2014. Marandi, addressing NDA leaders at the BJP office in Ranchi, expressed confidence in a landslide victory, citing widespread dissatisfaction with Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s government. “The people of Ghatshila are fed up with six years of stalled development, corruption, and misgovernance,” he stated.
Marandi accused the JMM-led administration of rampant resource exploitation, deteriorating law and order, and failing infrastructure, including poor healthcare, unreliable electricity, and a collapsing education system. “Unemployment is skyrocketing, and recruitment processes are marred by irregularities,” he added, predicting that voters would use the bypoll to “teach the government a lesson.”
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AJSU Party president and former deputy chief minister Sudesh Kumar Mahto reinforced the NDA’s resolve, stating, “We will fight with full strength and unity to expose the state government’s failures.” He urged voters to back the NDA to “rescue Jharkhand from a corrupt and incompetent regime.” JDU state president and Rajya Sabha MP Khiru Mahto echoed this confidence, emphasizing the alliance’s preparedness to secure a win.
The Ghatshila constituency, with 2.55 lakh voters, including 1.30 lakh women, will see 300 polling stations across 218 locations, with web-casting at all booths. Nominations close on October 21, withdrawals by October 24, and votes will be counted on November 14. The bypoll coincides with the second phase of Bihar’s assembly elections.
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