JMM yet to announce candidate for JSR seat

Jamshedpur: JMM is yet to declare its candidate for the Jamshedpur Lok Sabha seat as it is considering multiple factors to determine the candidature. Party insiders said winnability and caste are the two important factors for selecting the candidate.

A member of the central committee said, “The names of the probables are with the central committee, which is mulling over the names against the present political scenario,” adding that the name might be announced around Ram Navami.

Chief minister Champai Soren said the candidate’s name would soon be announced. “There is joy in waiting, enjoy the wait,” he quipped.

Sources said a party member belonging to the Kurmi community might be nominated against BJP, which has named the party’s sitting MP, Bidyut Baran Mahato, for the third consecutive term. “Kurmi voters constitute a significant chunk, but it would be unfair to say that only caste would decide the poll result,” said Sunil Mahato, one of the contenders for the ticket.

The pressure from the four party MLAs of the Jamshedpur parliament constituency not to give the ticket to a turncoat has left the leadership with little option. A few in the central committee were open to the idea of giving the ticket to an outsider, but strong opposition voiced by the MLAs and the district committee drove the decision makers to shun the idea, said a district committee member.

JMM is also holding backroom talks with the state Congress leadership to decide the candidate, said party sources.

The voting in the Jamshedpur parliament constituency will be held on May 25.

The Jamshedpur constituency has witnessed 10 elections between 1991 and 2019. A Kurmi candidate won seven times. In the 2019 parliament elections, Champai was the JMM candidate and Mahagathbandhan nominee for the Jamshedpur constituency. He was defeated by the BJP candidate by a huge margin.

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