Jharkhand: Campaigning for Madhupur bypoll ends

Campaigning for Madhupur bypoll, which is scheduled on April 17, drew to an in depth Thursday. Eight candidates are within the fray from the seat the place the bypoll was necessitated following the loss of life of Minister Haji Mohammad Hussain Ansari attributable to COVID-19 final yr.
The constituency has 322, 090 electors; the outcomes might be out on May 2.
Banking on Ansari’s reputation, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) has fielded his son, Hafijul Hasan. The Bharatiya Janata Party, alternatively, is relying on All Jharkhand Students’ Union turncoat Ganga Narayan Singh, who joined the BJP earlier than March 30.

BJP didn’t give ticket to its former MLA, Raj Paliwar, who had misplaced to Haji Ansari within the 2019 meeting elections by 13,000 votes. Ganga Narayan Singh, then in AJSU, had acquired third highest 45,620 votes. The different six candidates are impartial.
Interestingly, AJSU, seen as a BJP ally, has not fielded any candidate in Madhupur.

BJP’s Babulal Marandi, Godda MP Nishikant Dubey and BJP state president Deepak Prakash amongst others campaigned for the candidate, Ganga Narayan Singh, whereas numerous leaders of the ruling Congress-JMM alliance, together with Congress minister Badal Patralekh and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and RJD campaigned for Hafijul Hassan.
The Left events in Jharkhand — CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML) and Marxist Coordination Committee — have introduced their help to the JMM-UPA candidate. In the 2019 Assembly polls, BJP, AJSU, JMM garnered 28.34 per cent, 19.88 per cent, and 38.4 per cent vote share, respectively.