Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren's Majority Test Today
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05 September, 2022 11:57 am IST
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Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren will take a test of his majority today amid allegations by the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-led coalition that the BJP of trying to topple the government by engineering defections.
Hemant Soren will take a trust vote in a special one-day Jharkhand assembly session. MLAs of the ruling coalition flew back in to state capital Ranchi on Sunday on a special flight from Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh, where they were sequestered at state guest house to prevent any poaching attempts.
The Chief Minister also called a meeting with the MLAs on September 04.
Amid a disqualification threat, Soren’s party, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), believes that the BJP may make a serious attempt to poach MLAs from the party and also from its ally Congress in a bid to topple the government. As many as 32 MLAs of the ruling coalition were taken on August 30 to a resort in Raipur, the capital of Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh. They have returned to Ranchi ahead of the trust vote.
The ruling coalition is planning a "show of strength" in the Assembly during the vote of confidence. It has 49 MLAs—30 from JMM, 18 from Congress, and one from the RJD—in the 82-member Assembly.
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