New Delhi, May 10 (Inditop.com) A parliamentary board meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday decided that two observers would Tuesday meet party legislators in Jharkhand to know their views on who the new chief minister should be, a party leader said.
Party general secretary Ananth Kumar said he and former BJP president Rajnath Singh would head to Jharkhand to meet party legislators there.
“It (their views) would be conveyed to party chief Nitin Gadkari,” Ananth Kumar told reporters.
He added that a party-led government would come to power in the state in a week.
The parliamentary board meeting was chaired by Gadkari.
Rejecting Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Shibu Soren’s statement that the JMM and the BJP would rule the state by rotation, Ananth Kumar said the BJP would rule the state for the next four and a half years until the expiry of the assembly’s term.
BJP’s Raghubar Das, who was the deputy chief minister in the state’s JMM-led government, is the frontrunner for the chief minister’s post.
Former chief minister Arjun Munda and former union finance and external affairs minister minister Yashwant Sinha are also eyeing the post. Both of them are members of the Lok Sabha from the state.
The BJP got an opportunity to form the government in the state under the settlement with the Shibu Soren-led JMM to end the political stalemate in the state.
The row began as the BJP threatened to withdraw support after Soren, who has retained his Lok Sabha seat, voted in favour of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) April 27 against the BJP’s cut motion in the house.
