Close contests among the 20 candidates in Dhanbad and 15 in Giridih are set to make the fourth phase of elections in Jharkhand interesting. The NDA and ‘Mahagathbandhan’ allies are set to be the key players in the two crucial constituencies, which will go to polls on Sunday.
Both the Lok Sabha constituencies are considered BJP’s stronghold. However, the NDA has fielded AJSU-party’s Chandra Prakash Choudhary against Jharkhand Mukti Morcha’s (JMM) Jagarnath Mahto in Giridih this time around. Dhanbad, on the other hand, will witness a head on contest between BJP’s incumbent parliamentarian PN Singh and Congress party’s Kirti Azad, a former cricketer who recently quit the BJP and joined the UPA fold.
