Jharkhand Assembly results 2024: Turncoats who switched to JMM fare better than BJP counterparts
The Hindu
Jharkhand Assembly results reveal turncoat surprises as early trends show JMM switchers trailing and BJP switchers leading.
The Jharkhand Assembly results are a mixed bag of surprises for turncoats in the poll fray. As counting for the 81-seat Assembly is under way on Saturday (November 23, 2024), early trends indicate most turncoats who switched from the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) are trailing in their respective seats, while those who switched from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or its ally All Jharkhand Student Union (AJSU) to the JMM or the Congress are leading.
Prior to the recently concluded Lok Sabha poll and this Assembly poll, some of the big names from the JMM to switch to the BJP are ex-CM Champai Soren, his son Babulal Soren, Sita Soren (wife of JMM chief Shibu Soren’s late son Durga Soren) and ex-CM Madhu Koda’s wife Geetha Koda.
On the other hand, some of the top BJP leaders to jump ship to the INDIA bloc are Hemlal Murmu – ex-MP from Rajmahal who switched to the JMM in 2023, former AJSU MLA Umakant Rajak and ex-MLA Janki Prasad Yadav. Also in the fray is Jaiprakash Patel, who switched from the JMM to the BJP in 2019 and now to the Congress.
Champai Soren
Ex-Chief Minister Champai Soren‘s bastion Seraikella has favoured him, as he is leading by 8,542 votes over the JMM’s Ganesh Mahali. Since switching to the BJP, Mr. Soren has faced the ire of his JMM peers after he accused Mr. Hemant Soren of ‘insultingly removing him from the CM post’. Mr. Soren and Mr. Mahali have clashed previously in 2014 and 2019 and Mr. Soren had prevailed. Mr. Mahali, who himself hopped from the BJP to the JMM ahead of this poll, is set to lose to Mr. Soren for a third time, albeit with switched loyalties.
Sita Soren
Shifting from her current seat Jama to Jamtara, the estranged daughter-in-law of the Soren family, Sita (Murmu) Soren, is being trounced by the incumbent MLA. She is trailing by 14,495 votes behind the Congress’s Irfan Ansari. She had switched to the BJP after falling out with the Soren family over the Chief Minister’s chair after Mr. Hemant Soren resigned from the post.
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