Bengaluru,  May 5: The CPI has decided to extend it support to Congress in 219 constituencies in the Assembly election apart from Kudligi, Sira, Bagepalli, Kalaburgi rural and Melukote.

CPI Executive Committee member HV Anantha Subba Rao said that Veeranna and Girish  of CPI would contest in Kudligi and Sira respectively, while CPM candidates would contest from Bagepalli and Kalaburgi rural constituencies, and Dharshan Puttannaiah of Swaraj India would contest from Melukote constituencies. Congress, JDS and BJP have been campaigning for the election in a brisk pace. Unfortunately, caste and money were playing a major role in this election. Instead of discussing over the manifestos, allegations and counter-allegations and personal attacks have been taking centre stage, he said.

The BJP has no moral right to ask votes because, its leaders have been saying that they have come to power just to change the Constitution. BJP has no faith in democracy, socialism and social justice for which it should be defeated. The JDS has no ideology, principles or philosophy. Only family politics is their objective. It has no credibility among people because of its opportunist attitude. So it could not protect the interests of the people. So, the farming community, labourers, women and others should support the CPI, CPM, Swaraj India and Congress candidates in the election, he said in a press release. 

 

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Ranchi(PTI): The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has emerged as a surprise element in the Jharkhand assembly elections with its candidates leading in five of the six seats where the party is contesting, according to trends available on the Election Commission's website on Saturday.

RJD candidates in five assembly seats were leading over sitting BJP legislators.

In 2019, RJD had secured only the Chatra seat where its nominee Satyanand Bhokta won.

In Deoghar, RJD’s Suresh Paswan was leading by 19,581 votes over his nearest rival and BJP's sitting MLA Narayan Das after the third round of counting.

RJD’s Sanjay Prasad Yadav was ahead by 19,867 votes in Godda over BJP MLA Amit Kumar Mandal after the sixth round of counting.

In Koderma, RJD nominee Subhash Prasad Yadav, who was out on bail, was leading by a margin of 3,471 votes over BJP’s sitting legislator Neera Yadav.

Subhas Prasad Yadav, considered to be one of the close aides of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court in a money laundering case.

Party’s Naresh Prasad Singh was leading by 5,159 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP’s Bishrampur MLA Ramchandra Chandravanshi.

RJD's Sanjay Kumar Singh Yadav was also leading from Hussainabad by 8,213 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP MLA Kamlesh Kumar Singh.

Party’s candidate Rashmi Prakash, however, was trailing from Chatra by 3,776 votes.

Bhokta did not contest the elections this time, and his daughter-in-law Prakash was given a ticket.