Amid hassle mounting on CM Hemant Soren, Congress stakes declare over Rajya Sabha seat

Express News Service

RANCHI: Amid the difficulty mounting on Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren over mining lease allegations, Congress has staked declare over the Rajya Sabha seat in Jharkhand.

Congress Chief Rajesh Thakur and State Parliamentary Affairs Minister Alamgir Alam together with Rameshwar Oraon, Banna Gupta and Badal Patralekh, met Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday and expressed their need of sending a Congress candidate to Rajya Sabha and sought his help for a similar.

According to Congress leaders, the grand alliance had supported JMM Chief Shibu Soren over the last Rajya Sabha elections; subsequently, it’s now their flip this time, to discipline a candidate.

“We told the Chief Minister that we want someone from the Congress who goes to the Rajya Sabha, and hence, want to field a candidate from Congress party,” stated Alam whereas popping out of the assembly with Chief Minister. The Chief Minister has additionally given optimistic indicators to their proposal saying that he’ll assume over it
and take a closing resolution on their proposal, he added.

“In 2020, the JMM fielded Shibu Soren on the first preference seat. As coalition dharma, it should help us field our candidate this time round,” stated Alam.

According to present numbers in Jharkhand Assembly, Congress can not win the election alone, however the grand alliance has sufficient numbers to win at the least one Rajya Sabha seat, he added.

Jharkhand Congress Chief additionally asserted {that a} proposal has been made earlier than the Chief Minister, to which, he reacted positively.

Meanwhile, inside hours of the assembly of prime Congress leaders and CM Hemant Soren, JMM General Secretary Supriyo Bhattacharya held a convention and introduced it has already been determined forward of 2019 elections that JMM will discipline its candidate for Rajya Sabha seats getting vacant throughout 2019 and 2024.

“As per the pre-poll alliance, it has already been decided that JMM will be fielding its candidate on the three Rajya Sabha seats getting vacant during the period 2019 and 2024 while the Congress Party, being a national party, will play the role of big brother during Lok Sabha elections,” stated Supriyo Bhattacharya. Last time, Guruji was our candidate and this time additionally, JMM will filed its personal candidate and the Congress ought to help him, he added.

The JMM has 30 members within the 81-seat meeting and a candidate wants 27 votes to win. Congress on the opposite has 17 MLAs whereas BJP has 26 MLAs, together with Babulal Marandi. Besides two unbiased MLAs, RJD, CPI (ML) and NCP every have 1 MLA.

In the current state of affairs, the grand alliance will get one of many two seats in Rajya Sabha and the BJP can also be more likely to get one seat if it succeeds in bringing the 2 unbiased MLAs to its aspect. JMM chief Shibu Soren and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president Deepak Prakash had received the 2 seats in 2020. The Congress did discipline Shahzada Anwar however misplaced.