With ‘Kolhan Tiger’ Champai Soren becoming JMM’s Jamshedpur candidate for Lok Sabha, the mood in Adityapur, the industrial town of Seriakela Kharswan, is upbeat. JMM workers erupted into celebration sooner JMM MLA was declared candidate.
Seraikela, the constituency presently represented by Champai, virtually turned into a partying zone with people queuing up at his resident in Gamharia.
Champai, popularly called Kolhan Tiger, is known for his firebrand politics and, the one who is credited for ensuring mass employment in several industries in the belt of Seraikela Kharswan district.
“We found that there are nearly 25.01 per cent ST voters (over 4 lakh) which was far more than Mahtos (kurmi voters) which is nearly 5.17 per cent (over 84,000) and five time MLA Champai Da has been a leader since the statehood movement and has a strong base amongst tribal,” said a member of the central executive committee of JMM.
The people of Seraikela are hopeful that their leader who is known for his dare acts would help them to promote infrastructure development.
The five-time Seraikela MLA (1991, 1995, 2005, 2009 and 2014, losing in 2000 to BJP Anant Ram Tuddu) Champai is hopeful to give his best.
“We are happy that the party listened to our demands. Champai da is the senior most and deserved party ticket. He was the obvious choice for the party,” said a district worker of JMM.
JMM leader Champai Soren had managed to retain his seat by defeating Laxman Tudu by a margin of about 32,000 votes.
Champai Soren, the third time legislature was first elected to Bihar assembly in the year 1990 and then retained the seat in the following elections held in 1995. However, he lost the 1995 elections but in the first ever elections held for the Jharkhand assembly in 2005 he narrowly defeated Laxman Tuddu of BJP by over 800 votes.