Jharkhand verdict today: All eyes on who will form the next government in the state | India News – Times of India

RANCHI: Several political parties, including JMM, Congress, RJD, BJP, Ajsu-P, JD(U), LJP(R) and newly formed JKLM, along with a total of 1,128 candidates, are eagerly awaiting the outcome of the battle for the ballot papers will be announced on Saturday. Of the two political camps – the BJP-led NDA – most exit polls favor victory INDIA block led by JMM to form the next government in Jharkhand.
With the voter turnout In the 81 Assembly constituencies, which went to the polls in two phases (November 13 and November 20), with a record turnout of over 67% since the creation of the state in 2000, both camps claimed on Friday that they would next forms. government by comfortably crossing the majority limit of 41 seats. Counting is expected to start at 8am. While the candidates spent anxious moments, heavyweights like Hemant Soren and his wife Kalpana held meetings with the party’s senior leadership over preparations for the counting day. BJP state president Babulal Marandi, a candidate from Dhanwar assembly segment in Giridih district, held meetings with the party’s booth committee members at the party office on Friday.
Saturday’s count will be a test of the Hemant-led government’s key welfare programs, including the Maiya Samman YojanaAbua Awas Yojana, Universal Pension Schemes for the Elderly, Widows and the Disabled, and the Old State Employees Pension Scheme. It will also be a test of the popularity and acceptance of Hemant himself, after his arrest by the ED and a five-month jail term in a land scam case earlier this year.
The elections come on the heels of the Lok Sabha polls, where the NDA won nine of the 14 parliamentary seats in the state, while the INDIA bloc won only five. The election battle also took place three months after Hemant, who spent five months in jail, took over the reins of the government on July 4 after deposing his ‘chacha’ Champai Soren. Miffy Champai switched to BJP a month later.
The BJP and its allies Ajsu-P, JD(U) and LJP (R) based their campaigns on attacking the outgoing Hemant government over corruption, questioning paper leaks of recruitment tests and the deaths of excise agent aspirants . However, the BJP’s thrust was the alleged changing demography of the state’s tribal hinterland due to the illegal Bengali infiltrators. Its star campaigners such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, UP CM Yogi Adityanath and Union Home Minister Amit Shah attacked JMM and Congress over the issue, with Modi and Yogi raising slogans like “Ek rahenge toh safe rahenge” and “Batenge hey Katenge”.
While BJP fielded candidates on 68 seats, Ajsu-P contested 10. Their ally JD(U) contested on two seats, while LJP (R) contested on one seat. On the other hand, JMM contested on 43 seats while Congress fielded candidates on 30 seats. RJD and CPI-ML contested for four seats each.
The high turnout of women voters in the state indicated that the INDIA bloc’s announcement to increase monthly stipends under its Maiya Samman Yojana and the BJP’s promise of ‘Go go Didi Yojana’ struck a chord with them. Leaders of the INDIA bloc, including Rahul Gandhi, tried to woo the electorate by promising a caste census and raising the reservation ceiling from the existing 50%.
“We have spent the last five years giving respect and recognition to the women of the state and presenting a clear roadmap for the state to the people. Unlike the BJP, we have not campaigned on baseless statements. Therefore, we are confident of a great result tomorrow,” AICC Jharkhand in-charge Ghulam Ahmed Mir said on Friday.
BJP spokesperson Ajay Shah claimed that the NDA will clear most of the seats in Kolhan and Santhal Pargana regions, which will help it win 60% of the seats. “We will be in a comfortable position to form the government,” he asserted.