Full list of candidates going to polls in Jharkhand in sixth phase of Lok Sabha election 2019

RANCHI: Voting on four Lok Sabha constituencies in Jharkhand will be held on Sunday, May 12 in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha election amid unprecedented security arrangements put in place by the Election commission of India.

The seats where voting will be held on Sunday, May 12 in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha election are - Giridih, Dhanbad, Jamshedpur and Singhbhum.

The high-decibel campaigning in Jharkhand for four Lok Sabha seats ended on Friday evening. Among the four seats, the contest is interesting in Giridih, Dhanbad and Singhbhum (Chaibasa).

Full list of candidates going to polls in Jharkhand in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha election 2019:

GIRDIH

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	Chandra Prakash Choudhary	AJSU Party
2	Jagarnath Mahto	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
3	Rasul Baksh	Bahujan Samaj Party
4	Amit Jani	Uttar Pradesh Navnirman Sena
5	Ahmad Ansari	Bhartiya Lokmat Rashtrwadi Party
6	Chandra Deo Prasad	Aihra National Party
7	Jogeshwar Thakur	Vishva SHakti Party
8	Dwaraka Prasad Lala	Republican Party of India (A)
9	Madhu Sudan	Jharkhand Party (Secular),
10	Shibu Singh	Bhartiya Manavadhikaar Federal Party
11	Sohrab Shah	Bahujan Mukti Party
12	Rajendra Dasaundhi	Independent
13	Sanjeev Kumar Mahato	Independent
14	Simmi Suman	Independent
15	Sunita Tudu	Independent

DHANBAD

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	KIRTI AZAD	Indian National Congress
2	PASHUPATI NATH SINGH	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	MADHVI SINGH	All India Trinamool Congress
4	MEGHNATH RAWANI	Bahujan Samaj Party
5	DEEPAK KUMAR DAS	Peoples Party of India (Democratic)
6	MANTOSH KUMAR MANDAL	Amra Bangalee
7	MIHIR CHANDRA MAHATO	Ambedkarite Party of India
8	MERAJ KHAN	Samajwadi Party
9	RAM LAL MAHTO	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
10	SUDHIR KUMAR MAHATO	Bahujan Mukti Party
11	HEERA LAL SHANKHVAR	All India Forward Bloc
12	UMESH PASWAN	Independent
13	PREM PRAKASH PASWAN	Independent
14	BAMAPADA BAURI	Independent
15	RAJESH KUMAR SINGH	Independent
16	LAKSHMI DEVI	Independent
17	VARUN KUMAR	Independent
18	SANJAY PASWAN	Independent
19	K.C.SINGH RAJ	Independent
20	SIDDHARTH GAUTAM	Independent

JAMSHEDPUR

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	Anjana Mahata	All India Trinamool Congress
2	Ashraf Hussain	Bahujan Samaj Party
3	Champai Soren	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
4	Bidyut Baran Mahato	Bharatiya Janata Party
5	Angad Mahato	Amra Bangalee
6	Asjadullah Imran	Bharat Prabhat Party
7	Qamar Raza Khan	Bhartiya Panchyat Party
8	Chandra Shekhar Mahato	Peoples Party of India (Democratic)
9	Panmani Singh	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
10	Malay Kumar Mahato	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star
11	Mahesh Kumar	Right to Recall Party
12	Ranjit Kumar Singh	Jharkhand Party
13	Shekh Akhir Uddin	Jharkhand Party (Naren)
14	Sabita Kaibarto	Aihra National Party
15	Subrat Kumar Pradhan	Ambedkarite Party of India
16	Surya Singh Besra	Jharkhand People's Party
17	Asit Kumar Singh	Independent
18	Dinesh Mahato	Independent
19	Deepak Kumar Giri	Independent
20	Mubin Khan	Independent
21	Rakesh Kumar	Independent
22	Shailesh Kumar Singh	Independent
23	Sarita Anand	Independent

SINGHBHUM

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	GEETA KORA	Indian National Congress
2	PARDESHI LAL MUNDA	Bahujan Samaj Party
3	LAXMAN GILUWA	Bharatiya Janata Party
4	KRISHNA MARDI	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Ulgulan)
5	CHANDRA MOHAN HEMBROM	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
6	PRATAP SINGH BANARA	Ambedkarite Party of India
7	HARI ORAWN	Kalinga Sena
8	ANIL SOREN	Independent
9	PUSHPA SINKU	Independent

In Chaibasa, there is a direct fight between Congress candidate Geeta Koda and Jharkhand BJP President and sitting Lok Sabha MP Lakshman Giluwa. Koda is the wife of former Chief Minister Madhu Koda who was a Lok Sabha MP from 2009 to 2014.

In rural areas, Geeta Koda is in a good position. In Chaibasa there are 12.57 lakh voters with six lakh from the Ho tribal community to which Geeta Koda also belongs.

In 2014, Giluwa had secured 3,03,131 votes and Geeta Koda had got 2,15,607 votes. The Congress candidate at the time got 1,11,796 votes. This time Geeta Koda is the Congress candidate. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi have both campaigned for their party candidates.

In Dhanbad, the fight is between Congress candidate Kirti Jha Azad and sitting BJP MP PN Singh. Singh had got 5,43,491 votes in 2014 and then Congress candidate Ajay Kumar Dubey had got 2,50,537 votes. Azad has not received support from local Congress leaders and he is considered as an outsider though Rahul Gandhi did hold a roadshow to support him. Its impact on voters will only be known on counting day on May 23.

Another interesting seat is Giridih. The BJP has left the Giridih seat to its ally, All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU). The AJSU has fielded Jharkhand Water Resources Minister Chandra Prakash Chaudhary. He is pitted against Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) candidate and legislator Jaggnath Mahto who had lost the 2014 poll by just 40,000 votes against the BJP`s Rabindra Pandey.

In Jamshedpur, the contest is between the BJP`s sitting MP Vidyut Baran Mahto and Champai Soren of the JMM. In the third phase of polling in the state, the sixth overall in the country, there are 67 candidates in the fray in Jharkhand.