BJP candidate Geeta Koda was defeated by JMM candidate Joba Manjhi in the most interesting all women battle. Joba Manjhi won by 1,66,983 votes. Joba has got 5,15,989 votes, while Geeta Koda has got 3,49,006 votes.
Kolhan is considered the fort of the Koda couple. Madhu Koda has
In a major jolt to BJP and especially party chief Babulal Marandi the party lost all five tribal reserved seats Khunti, Singhbhum, Lohardaga, Rajmahal and Dumka. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP lost two seats-Rajmahal and Singhbhum and retained the Khunti seat with a slender
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is banking majorly on borrowed candidates in Jharkhand in the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections in the state even as Party loyalists continue to feel sidelined and neglected.
Barring former Rajya Sabha MP Samir Oraon trying his luck from Lohardaga and Godda MP
Chatra Lok Sabha seat is the only constituency in the state which has never been represented by a local since the first elections were held here in 1957. This year, however, has been different. BJP benched its outgoing MP Sunil Kumar Singh, an outsider, after intense protests from a section of the party workers and fielded Kalicharan Singh, a local. Congress candidate KN Tripathi, an outsider too by the virtue of being a native of Palamu district, is also facing protests after his name was announced recently. Will Chatra break the trend of electing outsiders? Learn more about the local vs. outsider dynamics in Chatra's MP elections.