Campaigning for Mandar ends, voting on Jun 23

Ranchi: Curtains fell on the campaigning for the Mandar bypoll at 4pm on Tuesday with both ruling and opposition camps holding multiple mass connect programme on the last day to woo the voters. Polling in Mandar, a seat reserved for ST candidates, will take place on June 23 and results will be out on 26.
While the ruling Congress has fielded Shilpi Neha Tirkey as a joint candidate of the mahagatbandhan, opposition BJP is banking on its former MLA, Gangotri Kujur, this year. In the 2019 polls, Kujur was benched by BJP over her “non-performance”. In 2014, she was elected from the seat on a BJP ticket.