VIJAY DEO JHA
Ranchi, May 4: Jharkhand Congress in-charge Avinash Pande, who arrived here today, to hold a series of the organizational meetings said that the Congress stood with alliance partner JMM and Chief Minister Hemant Soren who is facing serious legal troubles due to the office of profit controversy. The Congress is part of the JMM-led government with four ministers.
“As far as the chief minister is concerned the law will take its own course. We firmly believe that the law of the land will prevail. But these things are not going to affect our alliance and the alliance government in Jharkhand,” he said while talking to the media at the Birsa Munda Airport.
He said that the BJP is spreading rumours through the media about the government. “Across the country, you see wherever there is an opposition-led government, the BJP creates political instability. The BJP can’t tolerate a government working for the welfare of the tribals and downtrodden,” he said.
Pande said that his Ranchi visit was prescheduled to review different organizational issues and programmes that the party has undertaken in the past two months. Pande held a meeting of the state coordination committee of the party. Later on, he held meetings with district presidents. He is set to return to Delhi on Thursday.
Top leaders who attended the coordination committee meeting said that only organizational issues were discussed. They did not discuss the chief minister facing the threat of disqualification for obtaining a mining lease.
“The CM has to reply to the Election Commission of India on this matter and we are confident that he will cross legal hurdles that the BJP has created to destabilize the government,” said former union minister Subodh Kant Sahay.
But another leader did not sound optimistic about the future of the government. “I feel the BJP has made a perfect plan to bring Jharkhand under the President’s rule by dismissing Hemant Soren. No discussion has taken place in this matter inside the party and the alliance,” said the leader who is the former state president of the party.
