Chief Minister Hemant Soren declared on Saturday that the Congress and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) would jointly run candidates in 70 of the 81 seats in the forthcoming Jharkhand assembly elections, forming the INDIA bloc. For the remaining 11 seats, seat-sharing talks are still underway on with coalition members, such as the Left and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).
Currently, the JMM is the largest and ruling party in Jharkhand, having 30 members in the state assembly. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has 25 MLAs, while Congress has 16.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced schedule for the Jharkhand and Maharashtra Assembly elections on Tuesday.
The 81-member Jharkhand Assembly will vote on November 13 and 20, while Maharashtra will hold a single-phase election on November 20.
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Source: HT
