Mahagathbandhan on advantage on all the 13 seats of first phase: Sahai

Ranchi: Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Subodh Kant Sahai claimed that on all the 13 seats where voting will be held in the first phase the candidates of Mahagathbandhan were at advantage.

Addressing a press conference here he said that since the BJP was in power, therefore, its candidates were in the race but the nominees of the opposition are far ahead against their rivals.

He said that sandcastle of the BJP was destroyed before the polls and its allies are contesting against BJP whereas opposition was fighting together. He said that defeat of BJP in Jharkhand will be a turning point in the country.

Mr Sahai said that due to some mistakes the opposition could not come together in the polls due to which BJP took the advantage but things have changed now and all the three parties are fighting together.

Attacking Chief Minister Raghubar Das he said that the maoists have opened the real claims of the state government and moreover the Chief Minister had himself said that if power does not reaches to all by 2018 than he will not be asking for their votes.