BJP’s Poll Debacle: How BJP Failed to Understand the mood of voters

The JMM-Congress-RJD is all set to form the next government in Jharkhand, dislodging the BJP which ruled the State for the last 5 years. The pre-poll alliance between Congress, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has won majority with a total of 47 seats between them. Out of the three, JMM won 30 seats, Congress won 16 seats and RJD won one seat.

The Raghubar Das-led party which jumped into the fray elections sans allies, was limited to only 25 seats, far below the majority mark. The incumbent CM Raghubar Das could not even retain his seat. He lost the Jamshedpur East seat by a margin of over 15k votes to the independent candidate Saryu Roy.