As Jharkhand gears up for the Assembly polls, the Congress party has announced its first list of 21 candidates, setting the stage for a fierce contest against the BJP and its allies. Key figures include Ajoy Kumar and Finance Minister Rameshwar Oraon,

The Congress released its first list of 21 candidates for the Jharkhand Assembly polls on Monday night, fielding Finance Minister Rameshwar Oraon from the Lohardaga seat reserved for Scheduled Tribes.

Mahendra Pathak, state secretary of Communist Party of India announced the party’s first list of nine candidates

CPI state secretary Mahendra Pathak released the list of candidates after being disappointed over the current seat-sharing arrangement of the INDIA bloc and said that the party would field candidates on a total of 15 seats for the Jharkhand assembly polls.

The Congress party has released the first list of 21 candidates for the Jharkhand assembly polls. Prominent names in the list include State Finance Minister Rameshwar Oraon, and senior party leader Ajoy Kumar and Jharkhand Health Minister Banna Gupta.

In the 2019 Assembly polls, the Hemant Soren-led Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) won 30 seats and formed government with the help of Congress, which had bagged 16 seats and also the

Former police officer and the party's in-charge for Tripura, Odisha, and Nagaland, Ajoy Kumar has been fielded from the Jamshedpur East constituency.