New Delhi: Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren alleged on Sunday, June 30, that efforts are being made to prepone the state’s Assembly elections which are otherwise set to be held at the end of the year.
Soren made the comments a day after he was released on bail and in an alleged land scam case and walked out of jail, reported The Indian Express.
Soren on Sunday, June 30, was attending the commemoration of the anniversary of a tribal rebellion, or ‘hul’, against the British in 1855. The former CM said that the INDIA alliance will launch a ‘hul’ of their own to uproot the BJP from the state.
“I have got to know that the state elections will be held earlier. I say, why just bring it back. Conduct the elections tomorrow. I promise you that people have understood their (BJP’s) ploy… There is complete chaos (in the opposition BJP’s camp) and conspiracies are being hatched to jail me again. But I am not scared,” said Soren, reported The Indian Express.
The Assembly elections in Jharkhand are expected to be held in November-December this year.
Soren said that the BJP has not spared any opposition leader and cited the case of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is presently lodged in jail.
“But these people don’t know that Jharkhand has been anointed with the blood of revolutionaries, from Sido Kanhu [one of the key figures in the 1855 Hul] to Birsa Munda… They cannot scare me,” said Soren, reported The Indian Express.
