Jharkhand: Political Scenario By Deepak Parvatiyar November 6, 2014 elections.in Political alignments are being worked out in the run up to the state elections in Jharkhand. The state has largely witnessed a battle involving the two national parties – the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, as well as the state party Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). BJP and AJSU alliance The ruling alliance of the JMM, the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has been broken on the poll eve. The BJP, that earlier decided to go all alone in the fray, has now reconsidered its decision and entered into a pre-poll tie-up with the local player and a former ally, the All Jharkhand Student Union (AJSU). In the 2009 state Assembly elections, BJP had won 18 seats and had 20.18 per cent vote share, the AJSU had bagged 5 seats and 5.72 per cent votes were polled in its favour. As per the new pact, the BJP has yielded eight seats to AJSU to contest out of the 81 Assembly s
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