Answering a question related to lohardaga which is to be conducted within the next six months, BJP State president Ravindra Rai said that BJP will field its candidate in lohardaga with an intention to win the seat.“The party workers from lohardaga have also expressed their will to contest elections this time, but still, we will sit together with our political allies in the state following which a unanimous decision will be taken in this regard,” said Rai.
lohardaga seat remains vacant following a court order of sentencing MlA Kamal Kishore Bhagat of seven years of rigorous imprisonment in an extortion an attempt of murder case registered against him 22 years back by a noted neuro-physician in Ranchi. With his sentencing, Assembly membership of Bhagat remains cancelled automatically in the light of the recent Supreme Court judgment.Remarkably, lohardga Assembly seat was among one out of the 8 seats given to AJSU by the NDA alliance during the last Assembly elections in the state. BJP contested 72 seats while its alliance partner AJSU contested 8 seats. Another alliance partner lJP contested one seat.