Ramgarh: The Ramgarh assembly constituency, which will go to the bypoll on February 27, will see a high-profile fight and it is a coveted seat that covers Nemra in Gola block, the native village of chief minister Hemant Soren.
The people of Nemra, including Soren’s family, are in the voter list of the area. The district administration said they are preparing for peaceful polling in the constituency comprising four blocks and 3.34 lakh voters. He said that a total of 405 polling stations would be set up. The seat was won by the Congress of the ruling JMM-Congress-RJD grand alliance in the 2019 assembly elections. The bypoll was necessitated after Mamata Devi of the Congress, which had won the seat in 2019, was convicted and sentenced to five years in jail last month in a 2016 riots case. Devi was accused of leading a protest against the Inland Power Limited and the district administration when the violence broke out. She is currently serving time in Hazaribagh Central Jail. According to the voter list, Gola is the largest block with 153 polling stations in 100 identified buildings. A total of 1,16,853 people will vote from here. Other blocks include Ramgarh, Chitarpur and Dulmi.
Deputy Development Commissioner-cum-Acting Deputy Commissioner, Nagendra Kumar Sinha said that a total of 3,34,167 people including 1,72,923 males and 1,61,244 females are eligible to cast their votes.
“405 polling stations will be set up in 233 buildings in Ramgarh constituency,” he said.
Ramgarh SP Piyush Pandey said, “As part of the security measures for the bypoll, adequate security forces will be deployed at sensitive polling stations, while checkposts will be set up at all entry points.”
The polling to be held in February will be the third bypoll to the Ramgarh assembly. It was organized for the first time in 1973 after the assassination of the then Ramgarh MLA Manzoor Hasan Khan in Patna during undivided Bihar. His wife won the seat in the subsequent by-election on a CPI ticket. The second by-election was held in 2001 and was won by former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi. The seat fell vacant after the demise of CPI’s Shabbir Ahmed Qureshi alias Bheera Singh.
The people of Nemra, including Soren’s family, are in the voter list of the area. The district administration said they are preparing for peaceful polling in the constituency comprising four blocks and 3.34 lakh voters. He said that a total of 405 polling stations would be set up. The seat was won by the Congress of the ruling JMM-Congress-RJD grand alliance in the 2019 assembly elections. The bypoll was necessitated after Mamata Devi of the Congress, which had won the seat in 2019, was convicted and sentenced to five years in jail last month in a 2016 riots case. Devi was accused of leading a protest against the Inland Power Limited and the district administration when the violence broke out. She is currently serving time in Hazaribagh Central Jail. According to the voter list, Gola is the largest block with 153 polling stations in 100 identified buildings. A total of 1,16,853 people will vote from here. Other blocks include Ramgarh, Chitarpur and Dulmi.
Deputy Development Commissioner-cum-Acting Deputy Commissioner, Nagendra Kumar Sinha said that a total of 3,34,167 people including 1,72,923 males and 1,61,244 females are eligible to cast their votes.
“405 polling stations will be set up in 233 buildings in Ramgarh constituency,” he said.
Ramgarh SP Piyush Pandey said, “As part of the security measures for the bypoll, adequate security forces will be deployed at sensitive polling stations, while checkposts will be set up at all entry points.”
The polling to be held in February will be the third bypoll to the Ramgarh assembly. It was organized for the first time in 1973 after the assassination of the then Ramgarh MLA Manzoor Hasan Khan in Patna during undivided Bihar. His wife won the seat in the subsequent by-election on a CPI ticket. The second by-election was held in 2001 and was won by former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi. The seat fell vacant after the demise of CPI’s Shabbir Ahmed Qureshi alias Bheera Singh.