JMM to begin poll preparations in Bihar from August

RANCHI: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), which recently announced that it will contest 12 seats in the upcoming Bihar assembly polls, on Thursday said it will begin the groundwork in the neighbouring state from August.
The party’s Bihar committee members, who arrived in Ranchi on Wednesday, met JMM working president Hemant Soren on Thursday morning who asked them to strengthen JMM’s booth committees and begin door-to-door campaigns in the run up to the election in Bihar.
“July is an important month for us as far as strengthening our organisational base in Bihar. From August onwards, the party’s central leadership will move to Bihar to oversee the poll preparations,” JMM general secretary Supriyo Bhattacharya said.
He added, “Hemant and party chief Shibu Soren will begin visiting Bihar before the polls and will also be the party’s star campaigners.”
On June 29, JMM had announced to contest in the Bihar polls under Mahagatbandhan’s fold comprising RJD and Congress. It also announced that it will contest in Tarapur, Katoria, Manihari, Jhajha, Banka, Thakurganj, Rupauli, Pranpur, Banmankhi, Jamalpur, Pirpainti and Chakai assembly seats. On June 30, RJD’s Pirpainti MLA Ram Vilash Paswan had paid a courtesy visit to Hemant at his residential office on Kanke Road.