NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Monday informed Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren that no fresh communication had been received by the poll panel from state governor Ramesh Bais since it rendered its opinion on the plea seeking his disqualification for allegedly getting a mining lease issued in his name.
Jharkhand governor had on October 27 claimed in Raipur that he had sought a second opinion from EC regarding the disqualification case against Soren — he even warned of an impending “nuclear bomb explosion” in Jharkhand. Bais' claim had prompted Soren to approach EC through his counsel Vaibhav Tomar on October 31, seeking a copy of the governor’s letter allegedly seeking this “second opinion”.
