Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) General Secretary, Bandhu Tirkey on Monday announced that he is not going to leave the party and he termed not forming alliance with Grand Alliance proved blunder for the party in recently concluded the State Assembly elections.
Addressing a press meet Tirkey said that he will not leve the party and will remain in JVM (P). “All the rumours in which it is saying that I am quitting the party are completely baseless and I will put my all effort to intact JVM (P). The party will raise the issue of the State and it will fight for these issues,” he added.
Speaking on poor performance of the party in recently concluded State Assembly elections, Tirkey said that the party had to join the Grand Alliance. “Not becoming the alliance partner proved blunder for the party. Had the party join the alliance then there were chances that the party could won more seats,” he added.
On Sunday, JVM (P) held a working committee meeting in leadership of the party Supremo and former Chief Minister of the State, Babulal Marandi to chalk out future strategy and to review results of recently concluded the State Assembly elections in which the party got humiliating defeat.
It was decided during the meeting that the present Working Committee and every committee of the party from Centre to Village level will be dissolved and the party will reconstruct its new Working Committee and all committees from Centre to Village level. All three MLAs of the party –Marandi, the party MLA from Poraiyahat and JVM(P) General Secretary, Pradeep Yadav and MLA from Mander constituency, Bandhu Tirkey—were present during the meeting. It was decided during the meeting that Marandi should be given the authority to reconstruct the party.
Rumors were rife since morning that the party will merge with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and BJP will make Babulal Marandi the Leader of Opposition. However, no such announcement was made after the meeting. A party MLA, Pradeep Yadav while talking to media after the meeting rubbished the speculations of merger of JVM-P in the BJP.
“I don’t know what will happen in future. How can someone predict the future?” said Yadav.
BJP has not announced the name of Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly as Chief Minister Raghubar Das himself lost election from Jamshedpur East constituency. Das was defeated by a Minister in his own Government, Saryu Roy.
JVM (P) contested recently concluded State Assembly election on its own on all 81 seats and the party won only three seats.