Medininagar (Jharkhand): Former Jharkhand Assembly Speaker Inder Singh Namdhari will field his son Dilip Singh Namdhari as independent candidate from Daltonganj assembly constituency.
“My son is positively contesting from the seat,” Namdhari, who had represented the seat five times, said today.
Daltonganj goes to polls in the first of the five-phase elections for which notification would be issued on October 29.
The first phase polling will be held on November 25.
Congress leader and Rural Development Minister K N Tripathy represents the seat now.