With just days left for the Lok Sabha election results, the ruling JMM hopes to get a good outcome this year, as opposed to 2019, when it tasted defeat at the hands of the BJP.
According to India Today-Axis My India exit poll, the BJP is projected to win 8-10 seats with a 47% vote share in Jharkhand. Besides, the Congress is likely to win 2-3 seats. The INDIA bloc is expected to win 4-6 seats with a 41 per cent vote share.
The JMM holds currently holds only one Lok Sabha seat, Rajmahal. In 2019, the BJP won 11 out of 14 Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand, and the JMM, Congress, and AJSU won one seat each.
Jharkhand voted in four phases this year, with voting concluding in the final phase on June 1.
Some important seats this general elections in Jharkhand are: Dumka, Rajmahal, Godda, Ranchi, Lohardaga, Singbhum.
In Singbhum, the BJP has fielded new entrant Geeta Kora, who won the seat on a Congress ticket in the 2019 general elections. She defeated Laxman Gilua by over 70,000 votes in the last elections. No female candidate had ever won from Singhbhum before Geeta.
Another important seat is Dumka, where BJP has fielded Sita Soren, former Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) MLA and the sister-in-law of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren. Nalin Soren is the INDIA bloc candidate in the Dumka seat.
Source: India Today