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Ranchi, April 22: The Jharkhand BJP is not going to join the Iftar party which Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren is going to host at his official residence on April 25 in Ranchi.
As the politics of Jharkhand has heated up with the CM landing in legal troubles and the BJP pressurizing him to resign, it is quite likely for the Jharkhand BJP to maintain distance from official programmes like this.
BJP’s Godda MP Nishikant Dubey who has been in battle with the Hemant Soren government has officially declined the invitation of the chief minister to attend the Iftar party.
“In the last two and half years, for the first time, the chief minister has come to know that I am too an MP. For the first time, I got an invitation over the phone to attend the Iftar party. Aapka nimantran aapko mubarak,” Nishikant Dubey tweeted on Friday.
Nishikant Dubey said that when he received a phone call from the chief minister’s residence on Friday morning he inquired twice from the caller.
“I inquired from the caller twice whether he has been asked to invite me. He confirmed that he was asked to invite me. It is not strange that the chief minister never called or invited me on any occasion. He rather asked the Godda district administration and police to humiliate and implicate me in false cases. There is no point in going there,” Nishikant Dubey said.
BJP’s Ranchi MP Sanjay Seth also confirmed that he received an invitation to attend the Iftar party.
“I am not going to attend the Iftar party hosted by Chief Minister Hemant Soren and his government who always undermined the dignity of MPs. I too got a call from the CM’s residence,” said Sanjay Seth. All MLAs and MPs have been invited to the Iftar party.
A senior BJP leader said that it was unlikely for any BJP MP, MLA and leader to accept the invitation for very obvious reasons.
“CM and his family members are in legal trouble and his government has lost the trust of the people. The government is oppressing the opposition. In a situation like this, the BJP can’t accept his invitation,” said the leader.
