The Congress on Saturday announced Bajra🎶ng Kumar Mahto as its candidate for the by-election to the Ramgarh assembly seat in Jharkhand, a party☂ official said.
🅷Mahto is the husband of Mamta Devi, whose disqualification necessitated the by-election to be held on February 27.
The Congress on Saturday announced Bajra🎶ng Kumar Mahto as its candidate for the by-election to the Ramgarh assembly seat in Jharkhand, a party☂ official said.
Mahto is the husband of Mamta Devi, whose disqual🌠ification necess🍌itated the by-election to be held on February 27.
"Congress president Mall♔ikarjun Kharge has approved Bajrang Kumar Mahto as Congress candidate for the ensuing by-election to the Leg📖islative Assembly of Jharkhand from Ramgarh constituency," a party statement said.
In December 2022, a special MP/MLA court in Hazaribag sentenced Mamta Devi a🍃nd 12 others to jail for five years in a cas🔯e of violence registered in 2016.
Mahto will file his nomination on February 7.
"Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Alamgir Alam💙 are likely t🌜o be present during Mahto’s filing of nomination," a party spokesperson said.
The nomination process started on February 1 and will end on 𝄹February 7.
Meanwhile, AJSU Party leader Sunita Choudhary filed her nomination on Saturday as an NDA candidate fo🌱r the Ramgarh by-poll.
“She will win🌜 with a good margin,” asserted BJP leader and Ranchi MLA C P Singh.
AJSU Party supremo 𝕴Sudesh Mahto said the by-poll is important forꦫ the state's politics as the Jharkhand government has “failed to fulfil its promises made during the 2019 election”.
⛦In the 2019 polls,🍸 Mamta Devi had defeated Choudhary by a margin of 28,718 votes.