Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Thursday met Governor Ramesh Bais and urged him to clear the confusion prevailing in the State for over three weeks over the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) reported opinion on Mr. Soren’s “disqualification” as a member of the State Legislative Assembly in connection with the office-of-profit case.
“Provide a copy of the decision of the Election Commission and provide an opportunity for reasonable hearing at the earliest so that the atmosphere of uncertainty engulfing the state, which is dangerous for healthy democracy, can be removed soon,” Mr. Soren urged the Governor in a two-page letter submitted to him. Mr. Soren also said that the Opposition BJP in the State had been using the uncertainty to “destabilize a democratically elected government by trying to poach ruling UPA (United Progressive Alliance) MLAs”.
Later, Mr. Soren tweeted in Hindi: “Meeting Hon’able Governor Shri Ramesh Bais ji at Raj Bhawan today, handed over a letter to him to remove the uncertainty of unexpected and unfortunate circumstances arising in the state for more than three weeks for, in this state of confusion, BJP should be stopped from doing this immoral effort”.
