Jharkhand assembly poll phase 4 starts today

Nearly five
million people are voting for 15 assembly seats across four districts of
Jharkhand on Monday

The voters
will decide the destiny  of 221
candidates, including 22 women and a third gender. Election officials, however,
denied from disclosing name of the third gender in order to avoid unnecessary promotion
of the candidate a day before the election.

Of the 15
constituencies, five are stated to be affected by the Maoists. The election
commission has made adequate security management in every booth to hold
peaceful polls.

Altogether
546 polling stations have been declared non-LWE-hyper-sensitive, while 2,665
stations are non-LWE-sensitive.

The phase is
crucial for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as it had won 11 seats of
the 15 in the 2014 assembly polls. The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), AJSU
Party, Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik (JVM-P) and Marxist Co-ordination
Committee (MCC) shared one seat each in the last assembly polls.