RANCHI: Keeping up with their counterparts from across the country, the leaders, lawmakers and workers of Jharkhand Congress on Friday tried to gherao the Raj Bhawan in protest against steep price rise of essential commodities.
Despite the rumblings inside the party and the arrest of its three MLAs in West Bengal over cash haul, the party’s state unit exercised its show of strength on the streets of Ranchi. The party state president, the MLAs, the ministers in the state cabinet, the former Union minister along with 2,000 ‘karyakartas’ marched from the party’s state headquarters located at Shraddhanand Road to Raj Bhawan at around 11 am.
