This will be an action replay of what happened in Delhi this week in Ranchi this Monday when the Hemant Soren government will move a ‘confidence motion’ in the Jharkhand Assembly. It is expected that he too will win it like Arvind Kejriwal. The objective of both the Chief Ministers is also the same – ‘Expose BJP’s strategy’.
In both states, there was no threat to the governments in power, as they had a clear majority, and so a confidence motion would seem an exercise in vain. AAP had 62 MLAs in a House of 70 and eventually won by 58 votes in its favor as three of its MLAs were abroad and Minister Satyendar Jain is in jail. The JMM-led alliance had 52 MLAs in the 82-member Assembly, before three Congress MLAs were suspended on charges of bribery and the strength of the JMM alliance now stands at 49 MLAs.
But Kejriwal used this opportunity and the floor of the assembly to attack the BJP, saying “You were trying to buy 12 MLAs for Rs 20 crore” and woo Deputy CM Manish Sisodia with a BJP leader’s call. For. So far no evidence has been given from your side for both the incidents. Similarly, Soren is expected to attack the BJP on the floor of the House for trying to “destabilize his government” and why he had to send nearly three dozen MLAs of the coalition in Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh to Raipur.
However, what makes Monday’s events interesting in Ranchi is that the governor can make his opinion public on the same day. Election commission India On the ‘office of profit’ controversy surrounding Soren, in which many expect him to be disqualified as an MLA. However, the government has said that Soren will resign in that case and be re-elected as CM and take oath and contest the assembly bypolls within six months. JMM will use the confidence motion to strengthen its continuity plan.
The BJP has questioned the same logic in both the confidence motion cases in Delhi and Ranchi, pointing out that neither the opposition nor the Speaker or the Governor has asked the government to prove its numbers in both the cases. The party’s strategy in Delhi was to say that it was Kejriwal’s strategy to divert attention from various corruption scandals in which agencies are turning the heat on his senior ministers like Sisodia and Satyendar Jain.
In Ranchi, the BJP is recognizing that the confidence motion is an attempt to divert attention from the stain of corruption on both Soren and his close aides as well as the deteriorating law and order situation in the state. A senior BJP leader in Jharkhand told News18 that the party will raise these issues in the House during a special one-day session on September 5, particularly the gross negligence of a case in which a schoolgirl was set ablaze and another Incident in which a tribal girl was found hanging from a tree in Dumka.
Soren, however, has taken a leaf out of the book of Kejriwal’s tricks to take on the BJP.
In the special one-day session, the Soren government can also present a proposal to conduct caste census in the state like Bihar. It will also be an answer to the BJP’s refusal to conduct a caste census at the national level.
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