The AGP, which aligned with the BJP in the last Assembly polls in 2016, voted for the Bill in the Rajya Sabha, where it has one lone member, Birendra Prasad Baishya
Supriyo Bhattacharya, the JMM's general secretary, claimed Hemant's 'credibility, hard work, transparent functioning and a commitment to carry forward his father's legacy'
Political sources said Mahto's equation with the BJP's incumbent CM, Raghubar Das, was "indifferent".
Jharkhand's political observers believe that if the AJSU snapped ties with the BJP rather insouciantly, it had 'good' reasons to do it
The upshot is that in half-a-dozen seats or more, the BJP's old-timers-turned-dissidents have filed nominations against the party's official candidates
Das has been an MLA from Jamshedpur East since 1995 - an achievement for an 'outsider' who hails from Chhattisgarh and not Jharkhand
Electoral returns from Ayodhya issue are mostly incalculable. After initial benefits, temple became a weight BJP found hard to lug
The Centre's assessment on the former CMs varies, depending on their continued "utility", and most critically their equation with Narendra Modi and Amit Shah