Deoghar (Jharkhand), Dec 15 (TIWN) Famous for Lord Shiva's Baidyanath Jyotirling, Deoghar in Jharkhand is one of the most important religious places for Hindus. The seat will go to polls on Monday (December 16) in the fourth phase of the Jharkhand Assembly elections. The contest on this seat is interesting.

Deoghar Assembly seat is reserved for the Scheduled Caste category and has three blocks — Deoghar Sadar, Devipur and Mohanpur. The seat has been so far represented by the candidates residing in the Deoghar Sadar area. Interestingly, voters of the Mohanpur block play ‘kingmaker’ as the area has comparatively more population than other two blocks.

In 2014 Assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party won the seat first time after its candidate Narayan Das defeated Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Suresh Paswan with double margin — Das got 92,022 votes while Paswan received 46,870.

Paswan had won the seat for the second time in 2009 state polls.

Union Home Minister and BJP President Amit Shah reached Deoghar on Saturday and offered prayers at the Baba Baidyanath temple and re-energised the election campaign by addressing a gathering here.

Local people do say that many of their problems have been resolved, but still some persist.

“All the schemes introduced by the Centre and state governments for Deoghar in last five years are appreciable. Das remained active during whole period, but he could have done more. He could bring more schemes,” said a businessman, Pawan Sharma.