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Giridih, September 12 (HS). The politics of Jharkhand is in the color of assembly elections 2024 these days. The wait is only for the announcement of the polling dates. Regarding the upcoming elections, the NDA, which came to power for the third time at the Center, is working on a strategy with the aim of returning to power in Jharkhand.
On the other hand, the Indy alliance is facing the challenge of retaining power in the state under the leadership of Hemant Soren. Meanwhile, the merger of the Marxist Coordination Committee (MASS) with the CPI-ML has increased the strength of the left parties in Jharkhand. With the increase in the strength of the left, the Indy alliance has got new strength in a total of six assembly seats in Dhanbad and Giridih districts of North Chotanagpur.
In both these districts, the organisational structure of MASS and CPI(ML) is quite strong and hence they have a good influence on many seats. Although there is no MLA of MASS in Dhanbad district, but Nirsa and Sindri MASS have their own traditional support base. The MASS candidate has been winning and losing on both the seats. Similarly, Bagodar and Dhanwar seats of Giridih district have also had a similar electoral history. In the elections held so far on Bagodar seat, except 2014, late Mahendra Singh and currently Vinod Kumar Singh have been the MLA. On Dhanwar seat also, former MLA of CPI-ML Raj Kumar Yadav has been winning and losing. On another seat of Giridih district, Gandey, the CPI(ML) candidate has also been getting respectable votes.
According to experts, after the union of both the parties, the strength of the Indi alliance has increased in at least ten seats of Giridih-Dhanbad. The benefit of which is almost certain to be received by the candidates of Indi Block in the assembly elections 2024.
Political experts say that both these districts are linked to coal and mica industry and have been strongholds of labour movement, which has been led by leftist leaders like AK Rai, Gurudas Chatterjee, Vinod Mishra, Chaturanan Mishra and Mahendra Singh. Regarding the merger of both the parties, MLA Vinod Singh and former MLA Arup Chatterjee say that the ideology of both the leftist parties has been the same. Both the parties have played an active role from the road to the House in the labour movement and the struggle for separate Jharkhand movement.
Both believe that the merger of both parties in the interest of Jharkhand is not only an ambitious step but will also help in taking the revolutionary struggles of both the parties forward. However, in the changed political circumstances regarding the assembly elections, both the leaders clarified that there will be no dispute in seat sharing. We will decide it together in the meeting of the Indi alliance. But party sources believe that after the merger, CPI-ML can demand a total of five seats from Giridih and Dhanbad. This includes Dhanwar and Bagodar of Giridih and Nirsa, Sidri and Chandan Kyari of Dhanbad. If consensus is not reached on five, then pressure will be exerted on Dhanwar, Bagodar, Nirsa and Sindri.