PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Nov 23: The Ghatshila seat is heading for a close contest.
The contest is between BJP’s Babulal Soren, (son of Champai Soren) and JMM’s Ramdas Soren, who was a minister in Hemant Soren’s cabinet.
Initially, Ramdas Soren had taken a huge lead, but after the fourth round of counting, Babulal Soren came very close.
There is a difference of around 1500 votes between Babulal and Ramdas. In the sixth round, Babulal went ahead by around 2000 votes.
Even after the seventh round, he maintained a lead of around 1000, but in the eighth round, he lagged behind Ramdas Soren.
In the seventh round, Ramdas took a lead of around 3000 votes.
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Ghatshila Constituency: Vote count after eighth round
- Babulal Soren, Bharatiya Janata Party- 33313
- Ramdas Soren, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha- 36550
- Indrajit Murmu, Bharat Adivasi Party- 400
- Diku Besra, SUCI Communist – 301
- Parvati Hansda, Independent- 149
- Manoj Mardi, Ambedkarite Party of India- 199
- Ramdas Murmu, JLKM – 5619
- Surya Singh Besra, JPP- 236
- Panchanan Soren, Independent- 156
- Bikram Kisku, Independent- 202
- Ramdev Hembram, Independent – 258
- Sunil Kumar Murmu, Independent- 553
- NOTA- 1261
