RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, Dec.27: A day after the Jharkhand Assembly cancelled the membership of Ramgarh MLA Mamta Devi for her conviction in a case of firing, the JMM today gave an open challenge to former Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das to contest byelection from the constituency.
Senior JMM leader Supriyo Bhattacharya threw the challenge organising a press conference at the party’s camp office in Harmu Housing Colony.
He said he would like to request the BJP and the Ajsu to make Das their candidate in the Ramgarh bypoll and give opportunity to the voters of the constituency to give a strong democratic slap for his misdeeds. He was of the opinion that while the Das-led BJP government was responsible for firing in Gola, people’s leaders like Mamta Devi were convicted in the court.
Bhattacharya claimed that the last time voters of Ramgarh had defeated the BJP by a margin of 28000 votes, this time they are ready to defeat the party with 56000 votes.
Bhattacharya, on the occasion, targeted the BJP for its half hearted approach to give reservation to the OBCs. He said when his party’s government took steps to include the OBC reservation bill in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution its intention was challenged but today the intention of the BJP is under scanner after the Allahabad High Court today scrapped the Yogi government’s decision taken on OBC reservation. He asked the BJP to clear its stand on the OBC reservation after the Allahabad High Court judgment.
Bhattacharya claimed that his party government has worked on 60 percent of the roadmap prepared for the development of the state and 40 percent will be completed during the rest of tenure. He counted the achievements saying though the government got hardly 500 days to work properly due to the corona pandemic, the model code due to the four bypolls and other allied reasons it worked a lot for the welfare of people of the state.
