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BJP Rules out Reconsidering Decision to Withdraw Support from JMM

Ruling out any truce with Jharkhand chief minister Shibu Soren, the BJP has decided to go ahead with its decision to withdraw support to his government, said media reports.

Senior party leader and Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj said that the party legislators would call on Governor MOH Farook later in the day and apprise him of the decision to withdraw support from the JMM-led government, reports said.

“BJP MLAs from Jharkhand had sought an appointment with the state governor at 11 AM but since one of our MLAs, Baijnath Ram, could not make it, we will now meet the Governor at 5 PM and withdraw support,” Swaraj was quoted as saying.

Soren, in the meantime, wrote letters to senior BJP leaders LK Advani, Swaraj and party chief Nitin Gadkari expressing regret about voting against the BJP-led NDA’s cut motion in Parliament, said reports.

“I have been unwell for sometime and it was due to my ill-health that I voted against the cut-motion,” Soren wrote in a letter according to PTI which claims to have its copy.

Pledging unstinted support to NDA, Soren pleaded that BJP reconsider its decision to withdraw support to his government, reports said.

However, the BJP remained unaffected with Swaraj saying: “We are not impressed with his letter and our decision to withdraw support remains firm.”

Besides, she refuted ‘rumours’ that BJP was trying to form a government with its own leader occupying the chief minister’s chair and Soren’s son Hemant as deputy chief minister.

“All these rumours are floating. We are a responsible opposition party and will not react to or take decisions based on what Hemant or Shibu Soren say in a press conference,” she said.

Hemant had called up former BJP President Rajnath Singh to request the party to rethink its decision to withdraw support to the JMM government.

On Soren’s actions, Deputy Chief Minister and chief of BJP’s Jharkhand unit Raghuvir Das said in Ranchi, “To err is human, and they have accepted the error.”

He, however, added, “we will abide by whatever decision our national leadership takes.”

(Based on internet reports)

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