Jharkhand polls: Koda fields wife,four loyalists

The remaining four candidates all Koda loyalists are Pappu Boipai from Chaibasa,Raju Sandil from Manoharpur,Avinash Purti from Chakradharpur and Subhash Pat Pinguwa from Majhgaon.

Manish Kumar Gupta,Kodas spokesperson,said on Monday that the campaign of these candidates would be monitored by Vinod Kumar Srivastava,who was Kodas campaign manager during the Lok Sabha polls.

Meanwhile,Koda continued to face the heat of the investigations against him and eight others all of whom have been named in an FIR filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

A day after his discharge from a city hospital,Koda was on Monday served fresh summons by the Enforcement Directorate,which asked him to appear in its office in New Delhi on November 15 instead of November 13.

In a related development,Devendra Mukhiya,an alleged aide of Koda,who was among those served notices by the Income Tax department to appear before it by November 6,turned up before the ITs Additional Director (Investigation) Ajit Srivastava. Mukhiya is the second person to have honoured the ITs notice. The first was Basant Bhattacharya,a government employee who appeared before Srivastava on November 6.

Ignore Naxals,MHA tells voters

NEW DELHI: Asking people in Jharkhand to ignore calls by Naxalites to boycott the upcoming Assembly polls,the Centre on Monday said it would provide proper security to every voter to ensure they exercise their franchise freely and fearlessly. Over 300 companies of paramilitary forces will be at the disposal of the Election Commission, MHA said. ENS