Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on May 11 drew parallels between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Centre's "use of agencies to destabilise a democratically elected government", asserting that he would not kowtow under pressure.
Mr. Soren, who is in the midst of an office-of-profit controversy, also said that he would give a befitting reply to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre, "just like Ukraine had been responding to Russia’s offensive".
"The way the Centre had been spreading propaganda, using agencies to destabilise a democratically elected State Government in Jharkhand, it can be compared to Russia's military action to demilitarize and wipeout Ukraine. Russia had thought it could knock down Ukraine in a day or two, but look how Ukraine is staging a counter-offensive, with the war going on for three months now," Mr. Soren told PTI.
