BJP seeks Guv intervention to declare Marandi as LoP

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BJP seeks Guv intervention to declare Marandi as LoP

Saturday, 08 August 2020 | VIJAY DEO JHA | Ranchi

Jharkhand BJP on Friday once again raised the issue of Babulal Marandi not yet granted status of leader of opposition in Jharkhand Assembly by Speaker Rabindra Nath Mahto as a delegation of

BJP leaders met Jharkhand Governor Droupadi Murmu to seek her intervention in the matter.

The delegation headed by state BJP president cum Rajya Sabha MP Deepak Prakash was joined by state general secretary Aditya Sahu and Pradeep Verma who alleged the Hemant Soren led government is murdering democracy by persuading the Assembly not to declare Marandi as leader of opposition.

“The JMM-Congress and RJD government doesn’t want the Opposition to raise the voice of the public. The CM wants to run the assembly without a leader of opposition. His hidden agenda has been reflected in his many statements and it seems that the Assembly speaker is deliberately not appointing Marandi as leader of opposition on instruction of the government. We have requested the governor to intervene in the matter since she is head of the state,” Prakash said.

Prakash said that Marandi merged his party the JVM in the BJP in February this year and this merger was validated by the Election Commission of India (ECI).

Prakash informed the governor that Marandi had cast his vote in the recently held Rajya Sabha election as the BJP member. The ECI also rejected the claim of two of the expelled JVM MLAs that they represent actual JVM and they have merged the JVM in the Congress.

“We have provided all required details to the office of the speaker. The BJP is the single largest opposition party in the assembly but under a conspiracy the post of leader of opposition is not given to us. Assembly speaker has no proper explanation as to why the legislative norm is being flouted,” said Prakash.

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