dumka considered to be a safe seat for a political debut for the family jmm supremo shibu sorens younger son basant may debut from the littipara constituency where the tribal outfit is yet to name a candidate both shibu and his son who is also jmms working president hemant soren had made their electoral debut from the seat however in the milieu of speculations of basants candidature littipara sitting mla simon marandis fate hangs in tenterhookssimon wants jmm to either field him or his son dinesh from the seat and is in no mood to relent under no circumstance will anyone contest from here littipara either me or my son dinesh will be contesting from the seat as a jmm candidate we had both applied to the party leadership for tickets dinesh is also looking to make a political debut in the 2019 assembly polls littipara a constituency reserved for scheduled tribes comes under santhal parganas and is considered to be jmms backyard however the party is yet to name any candidate from the seat which goes to polls in the final leg of the fivephased assembly election on december 20party insiders said the reason jmm is not naming a candidate from this seat is because it wishes to field basant and help him sail through smoothly in his electoral debut sources close to simon said he may choose to go solo if denied a ticket he had done so before the 2014 lok sabha polls by joining bjp after jmm denied a ticket to his son from rajmahal in the 2014 assembly polls bjp fielded simon from littipara but he lost to jmms anil murmu in 2017 after murmus demise when the seat fell vacant simon switched sides to jmm and won from here