Elaborate protection preparations were made on Monday for byelection to Ramgarh meeting constituency, in which 18 candidates, which include 14 Independents, are withinside the fray, a ballot reputable stated on Sunday. Polling will begin at 7 am and maintain until five pm, he stated.
Over 3.34 lakh voters, which include 1.sixty one lakh women, are eligible to exercising their franchise withinside the by-election. As many as 4,276 electors are above eighty years of age and 6,321 bodily challenged, the reputable stated. The by-election changed into necessitated after the disqualification of Congress legislator Mamta Devi, following her conviction in a crook case.
The Congress, an best friend of the ruling JMM-led dispensation, has fielded Mamta Devi`s husband, Bajrang Mahto, from the seat. Mahto is ready to tackle Sunita Choudhary of the AJSU Party, which has tied up with the BJP for the ballot . According to Ramgarh Superintendent of Police (SP) Piyush Pandey, the by-ballot might be performed in 405 polling cubicles.
“Of the 405 cubicles, 244 were marked `hyper touchy’ and 114 as ‘touchy’,” he stated. “Adequate wide variety of protection employees has been deployed close to the hyper touchy and touchy cubicles to make sure that the polling is held in a non violent manner. All cubicles may have one hundred according to cent protection cover,” he asserted.
In the 81-member Jharkhand House, the ruling UPA presently has forty eight MLAs — JMM 30, Congress 17 and RJD one. The BJP has 26 participants and AJSU Party . The NCP and CPI (ML) have one lawmaker each, other than Independents.