Rahul Gandhi to attend 'Samvidhan Samman Sammelan' at Ranchi today

Leader of Opposition and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi left his residence for Ranchi on Saturday to attend the Samvidhan Samman Sammelan ANI reportedAccording to ANI Gandhi is set to address the meeting at the Samvidhan Samman Sammelan to be held in Ranchi Jharkhand on Saturday at 3 pmThe Jharkhand Mukti Morcha JMM is the single largest and ruling party in the state with 30 MLAs representing it Bharatiya Janata Party BJP has 25 MLAs while Congress has 16On Tuesday the Election Commission of India announced the dates and schedule for the Assembly elections in the state of Jharkhand and MaharashtraThe 81 assembly seats of Jharkhand is going to polls on November 13 and 20 while Maharashtra will have a singlephase election on November 20 the ECI saidA total of 260 crore voters are eligible to vote in the state of Jharkhand with 131 crore being male and 129 being female voters The state has 1184 lakh firsttime voters ANI reportedThe vote counting will take place on November 23 in both statesAs per ANI Congress and JMM have formed their alliance for the assembly elections with the seat sharing yet to be finalizedCongress state incharge Ghulam Ahmad Mir stated Friday that the Congresss participation in the elections and the seatsharing arrangement with the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha would be finalized by Saturday or Sunday ahead of the states Assembly electionsIn response to concerns over the seatsharing deal with the JMM Ghulam Ahmad Mir said We Congress and JMM have had three rounds of talks and apart from JMM we will also have a meeting with our stakeholders by this evening Whatever our participation will be it will be decided by tomorrow or the day afterHe further added that the names of the candidates have come from the lowest level ANI reportedOn the other hand The BJP is set to contest the upcoming Jharkhand assembly elections along with its NDA allies All Jharkhand Students Union AJSU Janata Dal United and Lok Janshakti Party LJP the party said on Friday according to the news agencyAccording to the agreement the AJSU will compete for 10 seats the JDU for two the LJP for Chatras lone seat and the BJP for the other 68At a joint press conference on Friday State BJP President Babulal Marandi AJSU Chief Sudesh Mahato Union Minister and Jharkhand Election InCharge Shivraj Singh Chauhan and Election CoIncharge Himanta Biswa Sarma spokeWith inputs from ANI