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Jharkhand lurches towards political uncertainty, JMM holds key:
Jharkhand was Wednesday headed towards political uncertainty with a
messy, fractured electoral verdict that gave no clear leads to any
grouping. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) was pitchforked into the
role.....
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Ranchi:
The strength of the minority MLAs in the Jharkhand Assembly has more
than doubled.
In the last Assembly there were two
minority MLAs, but this time five minority MLA have been elected to
the Assembly.
The minority MLAs who have been newly
elected to the House are Akil Akhtar, Haji Hussain Ansari,
Nizamuddin Ansari, Sarfraz Ahmed and Manna Malik.
Akil Akhtar of the JMM defeated the
Jharkhand Assembly Speaker Alamgir Alam of the Congress from the
Pakur seat by 5676 votes.
The second minority MLA in the new
House is Hussain Ansari of the JMM who defeated Shiv Dutt Sharma of
the JVM(P) by 20,468 votes in the Madhupur Assembly seat.
Nizamuddin Ansari of the JVM(P) is the
third minority MLA elected to the new House. Ansari defeated Raj
Kumar Yadav of the CPI(ML-L) by 4973 votes from the Dhanwar seat.
The fourth minority MLA elected to the
Jharkhand assembly is Sarfraz Ahmed of the Congress who defeated
sitting JMM MLA Salkhan Murmu by 8455 votes from the Gandey seat.
Mannan Malik of the Congress is the
fifth and last minority MLA elected to the House. Malik defeated
Rajkumar Singh of the BJP by just 890 votes from the Dhanbad seat.
In the last Assembly the two minority
MLAs were Alamgir Alam and Izrail Ansari.
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