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With the Election Commission announcement of five-phased polling to elect a new Jharkhand Assembly, different political parties are working out permutations and combinations to forge an alliance which can win. Reports say that the Congress is likely to contest alone most of the 81 Assembly seats in Jharkhand. The party does not want to align with Shibu Soren’s Jharkhand Mukti Morcha given the JMM chief’s “murky image and credentials.’’ Most Congress leaders are also not in favour of any truc ...