RANCHI: Taking a leaf out of Aam Admi Party’s (AAP’s) strategy in Delhi, the Hemant Soren-led coalition government in Jharkhand will move a confidence motion in the special session on Monday. Talking to TOI on Saturday, parliamentary affairs minister Alamgir Alam said an air of political uncertainty has been created by tweets of BJP netas.
“We need to dispel this uncertainty once and for all. We have the people’s mandate and the required numbers in the 81-member House to remain in power. The government would like to tell everyone that the Hemant Soren-led coalition government enjoys the support of the majority MLAs and the general electorate in particular,” Alam said.
He further said the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi moved a confidence motion on its own to prove that the ‘Operation Lotus’ has failed in the national capital. “We are doing the same here,” Alam said.
The UPA government in the state has been carefully making a strategy since the day the Election Commission’s letter on Soren’s office-of-profit case reportedly reached the Raj Bhavan without any official confirmation but with selective leaks to different media houses.
Alam said, “The Raj Bhavan remained silent for long but it admitted to receiving the letter from the EC when a UPA delegation met governor Ramesh Bais on Thursday. The governor rushed to Delhi a day after we met him, indicating that BJP is buying time to poach our MLAs.”
Former joint secretary of the assembly and an expert on legislative matters Uday Bhan Singh said, “Since the proposal for declaring the closure of the monsoon session of the assembly after its sine die adjournment was not yet sent to the governor for approval, the cabinet brought in a proposal to cancel the adjournment and continue with an extended monsoon session.”
Commenting on the benefit of seeking a trust vote, the first speaker of the Jharkhand assembly, Inder Singh Namdhari, said the exercise would have a “perception value rather than a legal standing”.
