Six Jharkhand Vikas Morcha MLAs join BJP

February 11, 2015 13:12

Six Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) MLAs today joined the BJP, a day after petitioning the Speaker to allow them to sit alongside ruling BJP-led coalition members in the state assembly.

"Naveen Jaiswal (Hatia), Amar Kumar Bauri (Chandankiyari), Ganesh Ganju (Simeria), Alok Kumar Chourasia (Daltonganj), Ranjit Singh (Sarath) and Janki Yadav (Barkatha) joined the party at Jharkhand Bhavan in Delhi today," BJP's state unit spokesman Pradip Sinha said.

The JVM(P) MLAs joined BJP at Jharkhand Bhavan here in presence of Das and other BJP leaders.

Earlier BJP had 37 MLAs of its own, and it had formed the government in the state with the help of MLAs from Sudesh Mahto's AJSU.

Now the alliance has 48 MLAs and is much more comfortably placed in the 81-member assembly.

Replying to a question as to why BJP was trying to break other parties, Das said, "I am not interested in breaking but connecting others. Those who want to support the BJP government in carrying out the development of the state are welcome."

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