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Yet heavyweights from the JMM too did not campaign in Ranchi despite their names being on the party’s list of star campaigners.JMM working president Hemant Soren also did not campaign in Ranchi. He said, “The CM held a closed-door meeting with all BJP candidates in all the urban local bodies that are going to polls. As the campaign trails drew to a close on Saturday, the former CM held four public meetings and participated in three road shows to seek support for the party’s mayoral candidate Shiva Kacchap and deputy mayor candidate Uttam Yadav. Our workers are enough to take them on).”Congress, which has backed independent candidate Ajay Tirkey as mayoral candidate and fielded Rajesh Kumar Gupta for deputy mayor, also did not bring in any star campaigners. While former Ranchi MP Subodh Kant Sahay took to the streets, state Congress president Ajoy Kumar briefly campaigned for Gupta on March 31..