His closest competitor, Surya Narayan Hansda of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), secured 59,441 votes, while Tala Marandi of the AJSU Party received 8,955 votes. In the 2014 elections ...

In Rajmahal, JMM's Vijay Kumar Hansdak will face BJP's Tala Marandi. In 2019, sitting MP Hansdak won with 5,07,830 votes; BJP's Hemlal Murmu got 4,08,635 votes.

In the Rajmahal (ST) constituency, the stage is set for a fierce contest between Vijay Kumar Hansdak of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Tala Marandi representing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).