On the penultimate day of filing nomination papers 8 candidates handed over their papers to the Returning Officer of Hazaribagh parliamentary constituency Sunil Kumar.
It was AJSU’s loknath Mahto who showed his strength on Wednesday in Hazaribagh town. Almost all the important roads of the town remained jammed on Wednesday due to the large gathering of AJSU workers and supporters.
Besides AJSU’s loknath Mahto seven other candidates filed their papers on Wednesday. Dr Hiralal Saha, a well known social worker cum surgeon of Hazaribagh filed papers as a candidate of Jharkhand Vikash Dal, Ajit Kumar Singh came as a TMC candidate while Abdul Rahim as a candidate of Bahujan Mukti Party and Badri Gope as the party candidate of Jaiprakash Janta Dal.
Dr Dhirendra Kumar Raj, Mahendra Kishor Mehta and Baldev Ganjhu filed their papers as independent candidates.Thus for Hazaribagh parliamentary constituency 22 candidates have filed their papers. Tomorrow the papers will be scrutinised.29th March is the last date of withdrawing the papers and on that day it will become clear that how many candidates finally remained in the battlefield.
On the other hand DPRO Rashmi Sinha has informed that an FIR has been lodged against the AAP candidate Mithilesh Kumar Dangi for violating model code of conduct. On Tuesday he, along with his supporters, had organised a rally in the court campus without any prior permission.