BJP has pulled out its big guns, Modi & Shah, in Jharkhand, while Congress has been slow to start, leaving JMM’s Hemant & Kalpana Soren to carry the campaign on their shoulders.
BJP chose football buff & ex-teacher to fight against CM at JMM stronghold in Jharkhand. Hembrom had fought on AJSU ticket last election & lost poorly to Soren.
Vinay Kumar Choubey was allegedly part of syndicate that caused losses to state exchequer. ED also searched premises linked to Jharkhand excise department joint commissioner.
Jharkhand is going to polls in November. The state's ex-CM and BJP president dismisses claims that he's party's CM face, adds that these elections are about 'saving Jharkhand'.
Chouhan further slammed the Hemant Soren government for encouraging vote bank politics in the state and said that BJP, his party, was committed to protecting 'Roti, Mati aur Beti.'
A scuffle erupted as BJP youth wing workers broke barricades during a protest rally against the Hemant Soren government's 'injustice' and its 'failure to fulfil election promises'
In countless public meetings, the CM has brought up his 5-month incarceration, presenting himself as taking up the cause of tribals, the poor, and Dalits. Polls due in November-December.
Champai Soren had resigned from the post of CM on 3 July, a day before JMM executive president Hemant Soren took oath as the 13th chief minister of Jharkhand on 4 July.
BJP and AJSU legislators walked out of the House as headcount for voting started. The BJP-led opposition has 24 legislators of the saffron party and three of the AJSU Party.
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