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New Delhi: Ahead of four crucial assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has retained its in-charges in Haryana, Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir, while it’s yet to appoint anyone for Maharashtra. BJP president J.P. Nadda issued a list of in-charges and co-in-charges for 24 states and Union territories Friday. No in-charges have been changed in any major state. Apart from Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal and Telangana were left out of the list. One of the few notable changes is the appointment of Anil Antony, a Christian leader, as in-charge of the two Christian-dominated states of Nagaland and Meghalaya, replacing Chouba Singh and Nalin Kohli. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance had suffered setbacks in both states in the Lok Sabha elections, an...

New Delhi: Former Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) MLA and daughter-in-law of party patriarch Shibu Soren, Sita Soren, who contested on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket this election is leading by 3,760 votes in Jharkhand’s Dumka.JMM veteran Nalin Soren, who is also a founding member of the party, is trailing. Dumka has been a JMM bastion with Shibu Soren having won his first Lok Sabha election from Dumka in 1980 and winning the seat several times since then. However, in the 2019 polls, BJP’s Sunil Soren defeated Shibu Soren by 47,590 votes. Show Full Article The seat saw a prestige battle of sorts because Dumka is also the erstwhile electoral bastion of BJP’s Jharkhand President Babulal Marandi, who beat Shibu Soren in the 1998 el...

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BJP puts Anil Antony in charge of Christian-dominated Meghalaya & Nagaland, no changes in big states

Contesting on BJP ticket, Sita Soren leads in Jharkhand’s Dumka, Shibu Soren’s former seat