LJP announces names of five candidates

PATNA: Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan on Tuesday here announced the 10 seats which the LJP would contest in the Jharkhand assembly elections.
Talking to mediapersons, he said that the LJP is negotiating with its ally CPI for two more seats in the Jharkhand assembly elections.
He announced the names of LJP candidates -- Dhruv Bhagat from Rajmahal, Krishna Mohan Singh from Ranchi, Shailendra Nath Trivedi from Sindri, Belal Khan from Dhanbad and Mandakini Murmu from Borio assembly constituency.The names of candidates for the other five assembly seats -- Barhi, Mandu, Raj Dhanwar, Chandan Kyari and Chatarpur -- would be finalized soon, he said. He added that the LJP is negotiating with the CPI to get the assembly seats of Badka Gaon and Ramgarh for LJP candidates under the alliance.
He said that the LJP in alliance with the CPI, CPM and the RJD would contest the Jharkhand assembly polls with an aim to give a stable government there.
He said that the coalition government with an independent MLA, Madhu Koda, being its chief minister had landed the Jharkhand state in trouble with Koda having unbridled power amassed huge wealth. To a query, Paswan said that his alliance partner RJD would not have any alliance with Koda for the Jharkhand assembly polls.
To another query that the RJD was alliance partner of Koda when he had formed his government, Paswan said that this would not be again as LJP's alliance partners would steer clear of Koda.
He said that on November 9, the LJP would stage district-level dharna across the state to protest the irregularities in distribution of grains to the families living below the poverty line (BPL) and clearing only 20 per cent of the applications for providing housing facility to the BPL families under Indira Awas Scheme.
He said that the state government must give compensation to the kin of the four victims of boat tragedy in Khagaria district after the cheques given to them by the district administration had bounced.