Amidst the political turmoil in Jharkhand, Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Sunday met state Congress in-charge Avinash Pandey and discussed the further course of action. The meeting between the two leaders was held at the State Guest House and lasted for an hour.
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After several meetings, alliance partners JMM, Congress and RJD in a joint press conference urged Jharkhand Governor Ramesh Bais to clear the confusion prevailing in the state for the past four days.
“If there is any report of the Election Commission (ruling Soren should lose membership of the legislature due to renewal of mining lease during his last term as chief minister), the governor should make it public and announce his decision. Senior JMM MLA and Minister Champai Soren said in a press conference that development works are getting hampered due to confusion.
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, the chief minister’s party, suspects that the BJP may make a serious attempt to grab itself and Congress MLAs to topple the government “like Maharashtra”.
in the midst of political turmoil JharkhandState Health Minister and Congress leader Banna Gupta on Sunday challenged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Center to implement Article 365 of the Constitution in the state.
“We have absolute majority. If BJP has guts then overthrow the state government by implementing Article 365. Otherwise one should not talk nonsense. People of the state are now troubled by all this. The whole system has come to a standstill,” Gupta said. he said. Notably, Article 365 of the Constitution imposes President’s rule on a State which fails to comply with the directions given by the Central Government.
After the meeting, Jharkhand Congress President Rajesh Thakur said, “This meeting was held between the Chief Minister and Congress’s state in-charge Avinash Pandey. It is not right to make public what he has discussed. Uncertainty.”
Earlier on Saturday night, a meeting of the Congress Legislature Party was held to discuss the course of action.
In the 81-member Jharkhand Assembly, the ruling coalition has 30 MLAs from the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), 18 MLAs from the Congress and one from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).
The BJP has sought Soren’s disqualification for violation of Section 9(a) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, which deals with disqualification for government contracts.
The clause states that “a person shall be disqualified, and so long as he has, in the course of his trade or business, entered into a contract with the appropriate Government for the supply of goods or for the performance thereof.” “any act done by that Government”.
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