JVM-P ‘lost to BJP & JMM’s big bucks’ in Jharkand

RANCHI: Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) on Saturday blamed lack of funds for its poor performance in the assembly election.
All the 73 candidates of JVM(P) met for the first time after the election on Saturday.
The candidates who lost the elections squarely blamed lack of funds. “BJP won most of the seats only because it spent money. The entire city was splashed with hoardings, posters and banners for which over one crore was spent only in Ranchi assembly constituency.It was all corporate funded,” said Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, who was the party’s candidate for Ranchi assembly seat.
“No one can imagine to continue in the race if rivals spend like this. JMM also spent a large amount of money. I lost because of the money show,” he added. Mishra got only 2,622 votes as against 95,760 votes of BJP candidate C P Singh.
JVM(P) contested the polls in alliance with All India Trinamool Congress. JVM-P contested 73 seats and TMC got eight. While Trinamool lost all the seats, JVM(P) managed to win eight seats this assembly election. JVM(P) Jamshedpur (east) candidate Abhay Singh, who fought against BJP’s Raghubar Das, also blamed BJP advertisement blitz. “Resources play a bigger role than personality in elections now,” said Singh, who got 20,815 votes while Das, now chief minister, got 1,03,427 votes.
Sources said party funding to candidates was not sufficient to contest the polls. A JVM(P) leader said because of false media reports about JVM(P) merging with BJP and “because BJP poached several party MLAs”, JVM-P could not receive much corporate funding.