The Bhartiya Janata Party’s candidate and sitting MP of Dhanbad constituency PN Singh along with ten others filed their nomination on Friday for Dhanbad lok Sabha constituency which is going for polls on 29 April.
The other candidates who filed their nominations are Rama Kant Sharma from AAP while Suman Banarjee,Vijay Kant Mishra, Manilal Mahato, Saras Murmu, Vinod Singh, Mantosh Mandal, Ahmad Hussan Ansari, Heera lal and Ramesh Kumar Rai were filed as independent candidates.
Earlier on Monday Chandrasekhar Dubey alias Dadai Dubey (ex Jharkhand labour Minister) filed his nomination as Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate; CK Raj Singh and Rajbir Singh were field their nominations as independent candidates. Dr Hemlata S Mohan filed her nomination as AJSU, Samrash Singh from JVM (P) and Anand Mahato filed his nomination as Marxist Coordination Committee’s (MCC) candidate while Kishor Kumar Murmu and Rupesh Mukhrjee filed their nomination as independent candidates for Dhanbad constituency on 2 April.
The Dhanbad lok Sabha constituency is one of the 14 lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies of Jharkhand covers parts of Bokaro and Dhanbad. This constituency comprises the six Vidhan Sabha seats.The last date for filing nomination is 5 April; scrutiny would be done on April 7 while candidates can withdraw their candidature from the poll fray by 9 April. About 18,65,522 voters includes 10,20, 637 male and 8,44,885 female voters would have decide the fate of the contestants.