Ranchi, Feb 3 (PTI) The AJSU Party on Friday announced Sunita Choudhary as its candidate for the by-election to the Ramgarh assembly seat in Jharkhand.
AJSU Party spokesperson Dev Sharan Bhagat it was fighting the election in alliance with the BJP.
“Choudhary will file her nomination on Saturday in presence of NDA leaders,” he said.
However, state BJP president Deepak Prakash told PTI that he was waiting for the central leadership’s decision on the candidate name for the Ramgarh seat.
By-election to the seat, which fell vacant after the disqualification of Congress legislator Mamta Devi, will be held on February 27 and the votes will be counted on March 2.
The nomination process started on February 1 and will conclude on February 7.
Congress’s Mamta Devi defeated AJSU’s Sunita Choudhary with a margin of 28,718 votes in the 2019 assembly elections. BJP and AJSU contested the 2019 assembly elections separately.
Balram Mahto, the husband of Mamta Devi, is the frontrunner to be the Congress candidate in the seat.
“We will announce the name of the candidate in a day or two,” state Congress president Rajesh Thakur told PTI.
In December, a special MP/MLA court in Hazaribag sentenced Mamta Devi and 12 others to jail for five years in a case of violence registered in 2016. PTI SAN SOM SOM
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