Jamshedpur: Bharatiya Janata Party�s Vidyut Varan Mahato turned out to be the leading contestant as he was declared to be ahead by his close rival, Jharkhand Vikas Morcha�s Dr Ajoy Kumar, by a margin of 65,039 votes in the initial rounds of counting. The BJP vote count was 1,46 ,888 by 11.39 am while that of JVM was 81, 849.
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha�s Niroop Mohanty fetched 37, 835 votes at third position. The counting of votes is on at Jamshedpur Cooperative College for the Jamshedpur Lok Sabha constituency
