Jharkhand Lok Sabha Election 2024: BJP Names Arjun Munda, Annapurna Devi Among 11 Candidates | Full List Here

Lok Sabha choices 2024 The BJP on Saturday  blazoned its first list  campaigners for the  forthcoming Lok Sabha  pates, naming  campaigners for 11 of 14 seats in Jharkhand, including Union Ministers Arjun Munda and Annapurna Devi, as well as former Congress MP Geeta Koda.  Munda and Annapurna Devi, both Union Ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet, will  dispute from Khunti ST and Koderma, independently.  Meanwhile, former Congress MP Geeta Koda, who's the  woman ofex-Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, has been  contended  from Singhbhum( ST). She had won the Singhbhum seat on a Congress ticket in 2019 by a  periphery of 72,155 votes defeating BJP’s Laxman Gilua. 

 Then the list of  campaigners  blazoned by the BJP for Jharkhand  

1.Rajmahal – Tala Marandi

2.  Dumka – Sunil Soren  

3.Godda – Nishikant Dubey 

4. Koderma – Annapurna Devi 

5. Ranchi – Sanjay Seth  

6.Jamshedpur – Vidyut Baran Mahato 

7. Singhbhum – Geeta Koda 

8. Khunti – Arjun Munda 

9. Lohardaga – Sameer Oraon  

10.Palamu – Vishnu Dayal Ram 

11. Hazaribagh – Manish Jaiswal 

 New  campaigners  Among the 11 names  blazoned by the BJP, four are new  campaigners, including Geeta Koda, Rajya Sabha MP Samir Oraon, Tala Marandi and Manish Jaiswal.  The seven other  campaigners will seekre-election from their  separate constituencies, including Union Ministers Arjun Munda( Khunti ST) and Annapurna Devi( Koderma).   BJP’s Hazaribag MLA Manish Jaiswal replaces sitting party MP Jayant Sinha from Hazaribag Lok Sabha seat. Jaiswal won the Hazaribag assembly constituency in 2019 by defeating Congress ’ Dr Ramchandra Prasad. 

  Sinha, son of former union minister Yashwant Sinha, said  before in the day that he'd requested party  chairman J P Nadda to relieve him from direct electoral duties as he wanted to  concentrate on “ combating climate change in Bharat ”.   Stalwarts  contended  in  crucial seats  The BJP has reposed faith in its Rajya Sabha MP from Jharkhand Samir Oraon, whose term is ending on May 3, for the Lok Sabha  pates. Oraon, who was  tagged to the Rajya Sabha in 2018, has been  contended  from Lohardaga( ST) seat, replacing being MP Sudarshan Bhagat, whose palm  periphery during the last  pates was  slightly 10,363. 

  The saffron party  contended  its former Jharkhand state  chairman Tala Marandi from Rajmahal( ST) seat, which is  presently held by JMM’s Vijay Hansdak.   In 2019, BJP’s Hemlal Murmu had  queried from the seat and lost to JMM. Marandi had won the Borio assembly seat on a BJP ticket in 2014. In 2019, Marandi had joined the AJSU party after being denied a ticket from the BJP. still, he lost to JMM’s Lobin Hembrom. Marandi again returned to BJP in 2022.   Union Minister Arjun Munda has been chosen again from Khunti( ST) seat which he'd won by a narrow  periphery of 1445 votes in 2019, defeating Congress’s Kalicharan Munda.   Palamu( SC) seat will be  queried by former Director General of Police Vishnu Dayal Ram who won the seat by a  periphery of votes during the last  pates.   Union minister Annapurna Devi,  querying on a JVM- P ticket in 2019 from Koderma, will fight from the same seat.

 She defeated state BJP  chairman and former chief minister Babulal Marandi by a  periphery of votes.   From the Ranchi seat, the party has  contended  sitting MP Sanjay Seth who had defeated Congress’s Subodh Kant Sahay by a  periphery of votes.   From Jamshedpur, BJP MP Bidyut Baran Mahto has been repeated. Mahto had defeated current Chief Minister Champai Soren in 2019 Lok Sabha  pates by votes.   Dumka( ST) went to sitting MP Sunil Soren who defeated JMM president Shibu Soren in 2019  pates by a  periphery of 47,590 votes while sitting MP Nishikant Dubey will  dispute from Godda. Dubey had defeated JVM- P’s Pradeep Yadav by votes.