Ramtahal Choudhary, who had represented Ranchi Lok Sabha seat for five times, is all set to join Congress. Choudhary, who comes from Kurmi caste having a sizable population in the constituency, is likely to be fielded on Congress ticket against Ranchi sitting MP and BJP nominee Sanjay Seth. Last time in 2019, Chaudhary was denied ticket from BJP due to age factor, after which he contested the elections as an independent. However, there was no success.
Choudhary will support Congress in this election and according to sources; he has not made any demand. BJP had denied ticket to Chaudhary and made Sanjay Seth its candidate, who is currently an MP and this time too he has got the ticket. Ram Tahal Chaudhary, born in 1942, was BJP MP from Ranchi Lok Sabha seat from 1991 to 2004 and then from 2014 to 2019. Apart from being a politician, he is also a social worker and educationist. In 2019, though Choudhary contested the election as an Independent candidate it was not easy. He got only 2.4% vote share. Sanjay Seth of Bharatiya Janata Party was the winner with 7,06,828 Votes and won by 2,83,026 votes. He received 57.21% Vote Share. Followed by Seth, the runner up was Subodh Kant Sahay of Indian National Congress getting 4,23,802 votes which was 34.3% of vote share.
Ram Tahal Choudhary who contested the election as Independent got only 29,597 Votes, which was 2.4% Vote Share.
Seth, despite illness, is much active both in the constituency and in the House. Seth is credited with bringing several projects to Ranchi including the Ranchi Ratu Road flyover among others. Ranchi MP Sanjay Seth, despite having recovered from a prolonged illness, recorded 87% attendance.
The Congress party has till now not declared its candidates in Jharkhand including for Ranchi. The elections for the Ranchi parliamentary seat would be held on May 25, while that in Tamar, which is part of Khunti seat, and Mandar, which is under Lohardaga seat, would be held on May 13.
Meanwhile, in another development Rajya Sabha MP Deepak Prakash has been included among the star campaigners of Bihar. In Bihar, voting will be done in 7 phases like before. Bihar is a very important state in terms of Lok Sabha elections.
Bharatiya Janata Party has released the list of 40 star campaigners for Bihar Lok Sabha elections. The list of star campaigners includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP National President JP Nadda, Rajnath Singh, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, several Union Ministers as well as former BJP state president from Jharkhand and Rajya Sabha MP Deepak Prakash has also been included in the list of star campaigners.
Expressing his gratitude to the central leadership, Prakash has expressed hope that this time BJP along with its allies will win all the 40 Lok Sabha seats of Bihar and cross the 400 mark across the country and make Narendra Modi the country's leader for the third time.
