The NDA and mahagathbandhan are locked in a close contest in the four seats polling in the sixth phase. All were won by BJP in 2014.
JMM has left Singhbhum for Congress, which has fielded Geeta Koda, wife of former CM Madhu Koda. A large part of the constituency is Maoist-affected. In 2014, Jharkhand BJP chief Laxman Gilua won the seat but six months later, in the assembly polls, JMM won five of the six segments.
All eyes are also on the coal town of
Dhanbad, the largest seat in this phase and a BJP stronghold. Here, former cricketer
Kirti Azad of Congress takes on sitting BJP MP P N Singh.
In Jamshedpur, BJP MP Bidyut Baran Mahto will fight JMM’s Seraikela MLA Champai Soren.