Ranchi: Amidst the political uncertainty in the state, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren won the trust vote on Monday in the special one-day session.
The session was called after the Jharkhand Cabinet recently approved the motion to hold a special Assembly session on Monday. The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) MLAs staying in Raipur resort flew back to Ranchi on Sunday to attend this special session.
HIGHLIGHTS
- “They want to create an atmosphere where 2 states are pitted against each other. They want to create an atmosphere of civil war & want to fan riots to win polls. As long as there is UPA Govt here, such plots will not survive. You will get a befitting political reply,” Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren said.
- Notably, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and its allies shifted their MLAs to a resort in Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh last week amid fears of poaching.
- Soon after the return of the MLAs from Raipur, CM Soren met them at the circuit house.
- Notably, a political crisis emerged in Jharkhand after a petition by the BJP sought Soren’s disqualification from the Assembly in an office of profit case.
- Soren could be disqualified as an MLA, nearly 31 MLAs and ministers of the ruling coalition in Jharkhand were in Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur.
- Soren told the reporters at the Ranchi airport that the ruling alliance is prepared to face every situation.
- “No unforeseen incident is going to take place. We are ready for everything, the situation is under control. I will let you know if I will go with the MLAs”, he said.
- The BJP has sought the disqualification of Soren as an MLA accusing him of allocating a mining lease to himself while he held the state Mining portfolio in 2021.
- In February this year, the BJP submitted a memorandum to the state Governor Ramesh Bais seeking disqualification of Soren from the House under Section 9(A) of the Representation of People’s Act.