The big question doing the rounds in BJP circles is why the party agreed to be part of the government in Jharkhand, though almost every senior leader had reservations about Chief Minister Shibu Soren’s image.
The answer provided by a senior official of Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram (VKA), a frontal body of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh working to stop the conversion of tribals in Jharkhand and other tribal areas, is the parent organisation wanted to stop the Congress from coming to power at any cost.
They feared this would affect growth of the VKA and its programmes.
“We had to chose between checking corruption and curbing conversion, we went for the latter,” says a senior RSS functionary who has been closely associated with VKA’s work in Jharkhand.
