Congress has announced five candidates for Jharkhand Assembly Elections. On Sunday, the Congress Election Committee announced these candidates. According to the list released by the All India Congress Committee, only 5 out of 31 candidates in the Congress account have been announced.

List of Congress candidates

Lohardaga – Rameshwar Oraon

Manika – Ramchandra Singh

Daltonganj – KN Tripathi

Vishrampur – Chandrasekhar Dubey

Bhawanathpur – KP Yada

Jharkhand Elections to be done in Five phases, with the first on November 30 and the last on December 20. Results will be declared on December 23. The five candidates are from seats that will go to polls in the first phase on November 30. November 13 is the last date of filing nominations.

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), Congress and Lalu Prasad Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) had recently announced a pre-poll alliance for the state and former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren will be the alliance's CM face. The Congress will contest 31 seats out of 81 seats in the Jharkhand assembly. The RJD will contest on seven seats, while the largest chunk of the alliance share has gone to the JMM, which will contest elections on 43 seats.