New Delhi: Leading parliamentary elections In Jharkhand, bjp and United MM Get caught up in the blame gamedynastic politics‘. While the JMM accused the BJP of adopting a similar approach of fielding candidates who are relatives of the former chief minister, the saffron party also responded in kind.
The ruling JMM on Tuesday announced its first list of 35 candidates for next month’s parliamentary elections, retaining 21 MLAs, including five ministers.
Referring to the JMM list released on Tuesday, which includes Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant SorenAssam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife Kalpana Soren and brother Basan Soren criticized the ruling party, saying “JMM’s candidate list clearly reflects dynastic politics.” He further pointed out that JMM lacks diversity in selection and only selects candidates with family connections.
Meanwhile, the BJP’s national spokesperson Pratul Shah Deo termed the JMM as a “parivarvaad” (dynastic politics) party. Terming the list of candidates as a ‘dance of dynasty’, a BJP spokesperson said, “This is what ‘parivarvaad’ looks like. This is a dance of dynasty. We have learned that three members of the ‘family’ have been given tickets, So far away, there’s another one in line.
“When 3-4 members of the same family contest elections, they are the candidates from chief minister to minister to MLA – it is a dynastic dance,” he said, according to news agency ANI.
The BJP spokesperson further expressed confidence that the JMM government will be driven out of the state after the elections.
“Don’t they have workers? Did he (CM Hemant Soren) have to send his brother, his wife and another relative? I think they feel the sentiment of the people this time. This time people will evict them .I don’t think Hemant Soren’s government will come back to power this time,” he added.
“Balanced List”
However, when the BJP accused it of “dynastic politics”, JMM Party leader Manoj Pandey refuted the BJP’s charges and called the party’s list a “balanced list”.
“This is a balanced list that was finalized after a lot of discussion and deliberation. I think they are all capable of winning. JMM’s winning rate this time is 90%. We will definitely win 90% of the seats this time.” If we add the number of alliances, we will have more than 60 MLAs this time,” he told news agency ANI.
The JMM also mercilessly attacked saffron party leaders for advocating a particular policy political family In the top post. In the initial list of candidates, the BJP nominated Meera Munda, Geeta Koda and Purnima Das Sahu. Meera and Geeta are the wives of former chief ministers Arjun Munda and Madhu Koda respectively, while Sahu is the daughter-in-law of former chief minister and current Odisha governor Raghubar Das.
JMM spokesperson Supriyo Bhattacharya said, “Never in the history of the BJP, a father and son have contested the same election together. It is often seen that when one person in a family contests the Lok Sabha elections, the other Parliamentary elections.
The JMM also criticized the Ajisu Party, an ally of the BJP, for similar actions. Ajitsu’s Giridi MP Chandra Prakash Chaudhary’s wife Sunita has been nominated from Ramgarh, while the BJP has nominated Chaudhry’s brother Roshan Lal Chau Dhuri is contesting from the Bakakaon seat in Hazaribagh.
“This shows the lack of candidates from the BJP and the NDA,” JMM said.
