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Everyone’s eyes are on Barhet assembly seat, one of the VIP seats of Jharkhand, because Chief Minister Hemant Soren is contesting from here for the third time. Through the ground report of RB NEWS, we will try to know whether Hemant Soren will be able to save his house from Barhet seat or will he be able to break the BJP’s Gamliyal Hembram Chakravyuh?
The team of RB NEWS first talked to the common people in Barhet. And wanted to know what are the important issues for them. Most of these people said that except for a few issues, work and development has taken place in the Barhet area.
Women are not very happy
However, 3-4 women present there are not very happy. These women say that despite being in the assembly during Hemant Soren’s rule, they neither got old age pension nor widow pension. Whereas Prime Minister Narendra Modi even got their house and toilet built. Some women also seemed worried about the safety of their daughters and sisters.
While visiting the area, the team talked to some more people there and wanted to know from them how true is the issue of identity of tribal people and what the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is saying about grabbing the land of tribal people, then the people said that yes, this issue is important and there is truth in it.
This is the government of Bunty-Babli: Hembram
BJP candidate Gamaliel Hembram, who is contesting against Hemant Soren from Barhet, also criticized the Chief Minister. During the meeting, he described the current state government as the government of Bunty-Babli and said that they are not even able to provide clean drinking water, due to which many people are getting diseases.
The women of Simaldhab village of the assembly constituency were also very angry with the Hemant government, they said that even after having a Chief Minister from this seat, the people here need basic facilities like clean water and roads. However, these women also said that they have hope from PM Modi.
JMM has occupied Barhet for a long time
The Barhet seat reserved for scheduled tribes is considered a safe seat of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). BJP has not been able to open its account on this seat till date. Hemant Soren has been winning elections from here for the last 2 times.
In the year 1990, Hemlal Murmu snatched this seat from Congress candidate Thomas Hansda. Since then, JMM has been continuously occupying this assembly seat. Hemlal remained MLA here till 2005. Due to his becoming an MP in the year 2004, JMM gave ticket to Thomas Soren from here.
Will the victory come in BJP’s account?
JMM’s victory margin in Barhet has been increasing. In the 2014 elections, JMM got 46.18 percent votes and BJP got 28.38 percent votes. That is, the victory margin was 18.12 percent which increased to 18.67 percent in 2019. In such a situation, BJP is definitely worried about this seat, this is the reason why BJP included proposer Mandal Murmu from this seat of Hemant Soren in its party.
The total number of voters in Barhet assembly seat for scheduled tribes is more than 1,95,453. The number of Santhal and Pahadia tribal voters in this area is about 71 percent and the number of Muslim voters is about 10 percent. According to the data, out of the total 2,25,885 voters of Barhet (ST) assembly seat, the number of men is 1,10,077 while the number of women is 1,15,807. In such a situation, the challenge is in front of both the ruling party and the opposition as to who wins this seat.
