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Jharkhand Polls: Congress’ Ajoy Kumar trails by 13,000 votes in Jamshedpur East

PINAKI MAJUMDAR   Jamshedpur, Nov 23:  Ajoy Kumar of Congress was trailing by 13,000 votes after four rounds of counting at the…

Jharkhand Polls: Congress’ Ajoy Kumar trails by 13,000 votes in Jamshedpur East

PINAKI MAJUMDAR

 

Jamshedpur, Nov 23:  Ajoy Kumar of Congress was trailing by 13,000 votes after four rounds of counting at the prestigious Jamshedpur East seat.

BJP’s Purnima Sahu, daughter-in-law of former chief minister Raghubar Das who got 24,278 votes at the end of the fourth round was leading by 13,000 votes.

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At the end of the fourth round of counting Ajoy Kumar got 11,315 votes.

The counting of votes is underway. Jamshedpur East, a general constituency had 303 booths where counting will continue for 21 rounds.

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Vote tallies of all candidates after Round 4 in Jamshedpur East:

  1. Ajoy Kumar, Congress-11315
  2. Anand Kumar Patralekh, Bahujan Samaj Party-88
  3. Purnima Sahu, Bharatiya Janata Party-24278
  4. Indal Kumar Singh, People’s Party of India Democratic-132
  5. Krishna Hansda, Bharat Adivasi Party-29
  6. Tarun Kumar Dey, JLKM -402
  7. Pawan Kumar Pandey, NCP -31
  8. Madhavendra Mehta, JPP -20
  9. Surjeet Singh, Right to Recall Party Candidate-38
  10. Abhishek Kumar, Independent- 40
  11. Kanchan Singh, Independent-35
  12. Krishna Lohar, Independent-52
  13. Gopal Lohar, Independent-54
  14. Dinkar Kachhap, Independent-226
  15. Dharmendra Kumar Singh, Independent-53
  16. Bablu Khutia, Independent-170
  17. Ravindra Singh, Independent -93
  18. Rajkumar Singh, Independent -79
  19. Roshan Sundi, Independent -83
  20. Shiv Shankar Singh, Independent -2224
  21. Shubham Sinha, Independent -22
  22. Sagar Kumar Tiwari, Independent -38
  23. Sugreev Mukhi, Independent -107
  24. Saurabh Vishnu, Independent -38
  25. NOTA-275

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