Following the formal induction of six JVM legislators into the BJP fold, the Jharkhand Assembly is gearing up to grant the merger a legal status. According to sources, the file relating to the development has been put up before Speaker Dinesh Oraon and after some formal consultations with law experts his secretariat may issue Bulletin-II notifying the changed composition of the House.
Sources in the Assembly Secretariat informed that the office of the Speaker had received various applications and memorandums in last few days relating to the political development that happened in the State. “We have received an application from the breakaway faction and later from the JVM party. We have all the points and counterpoints. Now, the file has reached to the Speaker’s desk and he would start consultation process with whom he thinks fit. Thereafter, the Secretariat would publish Bulletin (part -2) notifying the decision of the Speaker,” said a senior official.
As many as six MlAs—Naveen Jaiswal (Hatia), Alok Chaurasia (Daltonganj), Amar Kumar Bauri (Chandankiyari), Ganesh Ganjhu (Simaria), Janki Prasad Yadav (Barktha) and Randhir Singh of Sarath—had written to the Speaker about snapping their association with their parent party JVM and sought to merge with the BJP. later, the flock travelled to Delhi where they were inducted into the BJP taking its own strength in the House of 81 up to 43. However, granting recognition to the faction in the House as BJP legislators is still pending.
The official added that for designating those as members of the BJP do not need any Assembly session and after taking experts’ view on the technicalities involved the formal announcement would be made public through publishing it in the Bulletin-II.