Jharkhand's Congress MLAs to meet today

December 24, 2019 11:03

The Congress in-charge for Jharkhand, RPN Singh, has called a meeting of newly elected party MLAs at the Congress office in Ranchi today.

As the JMM-led alliance emerged the winner in the Jharkhand Assembly polls on Monday, the Congress reiterated that JMM chief Hemant Soren would be the chief minister.

RPN Singh said, "We will form the government as we fought the elections for the people of the state by raising issues that affect their lives and livelihoods. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah tried to divert the attention of the people away from fundamental issues but the people did not get swayed."

Reiterating that Hemant Soren of the JMM will be the chief minister as declared earlier, Singh said the Jharkhand results are a defeat of BJP's "arrogance and diversionary tactics".

Congress coordinator for Jharkhand polls Ajay Sharma said this is the defeat of BJP's corruption and its arrogance.

BJP gave tickets to corrupt candidates whom the people rejected. The Congress kept the focus on people's issues and articulated common man's problems which the BJP failed to solve, Sharma said.

The JMM-Congress-RJD alliance in Jharkhand won 47 seats out of the 81 seats of state Assembly, while the ruling BJP won 25 seats.

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