Tirkey, Jayant, Jalewashwar among nomination filing candidates
General Election-2014 has raised the excitement of people without political affiliations to fever pitch. As many as nine independents on Monday filed their nomination for constituencies across Jharkhand taking the tally of total nominations filed to 24 in fifth phase constituencies.
Interestingly, Ranchi has so far been the most preferred seat among independent candidates as four independents filed their nominations for the constituency on Monday taking to total figure for independents to six by the end of the day.
Around four independent candidates have purchased nomination papers for Ranchi parliamentary constituency. As many as six nominations were filed for Ranchi constituency of Monday.
Amid the nondescript one, some of the known faces with strong political background also filed their nomination for Ranchi lok Sabha seat including Mandar MlA Bandhu Tirkey. Tirkey filed nomination in four sets and will contest under the banner of Trinamool Congress.
“We will contest election with the slogan of jal (water), jangal (forest) and jameen (land). People will be surprised by my result,” said Tirkey.
The Mandar MlA also assured of implementing Domicile policy if TMC gets more seats in the elections.
Aprt from Ranchi, five candidates including JD (U) State president Jaleshwar Mahto filed nomination for Giridih; six nominations were filed for Hazaribagh; three for Jamshedpur and two each from Khunti and Singhbhum. Interestingly, Hazaribagh witnesses two high profile candidates’ nomination on Monday. Son of sitting MP Yashvant Sinha, Jayant Sinha and Hazaribagh MlA Saurav Narayan Singh filed nomination for Hazaribagh constituency.
Meanwhile, candidature of a candidate from Palamu constituency was cancelled on the grounds of insufficient documents. According to returning officer of Palamu, KN Jha, nomination of Kishundhari Ram stands rejected as the latter failed to furnish documents corroborating candidature from Aam Admi Party. Ram had filed his nomination as a candidate of AAP.