The current thinking in the Congress is not in favour of pre-poll alliances
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren. (Photo: PTI)
New Delhi: The Congress has decided to go alone in the coming Jharkhand Assembly polls after calling off its alliance with the JMM after sharing power with the latter for more than a year.
The party had earlier broken its alliance with the NCP in Maharashtra and the National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir.
AICC general secretary B.K. Hariprasad said that the Congress will take a call later on whether to withdraw support to the Hemant Soren government. He also said that the Congress would like to take along other like-minded small parties indicating that it might tie up with the RJD and the JD(U) with which it had faced bypolls in Bihar in August.
The current thinking in the Congress is not favour of pre poll alliances with the regional parties to check the BJP irrespective of its outcome. It took this decision following the debacle in the Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly polls which saw the BJP’s emergence as a ruling party.
As far as Jharkhand polls are concerned, the Congress has never been a player there ever since the state was formed after the bifurcation of Bihar. The BJP and the JMM are the key players there; the Congress has been lacking a a face and votes in the tribal-dominated states.
The five-phase Assembly polls in Jharkhand are scheduled to begin on November 25. In the LS poll, the BJP had won 12 out of 14 seats in the state.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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