The Hemant Soren Government in Jharkhand on Monday won the confidence vote in the Assembly by a comfortable margin by 48 votes to zero, bringing relief to the ruling JMM-Congress-RJD alliance in the State.
Uncertainty had been prevailing in the State since August 25 after the media reported that the ECI had sent its recommendation to the
Governor (over BJP’s petition seeking Soren’s disqualification as MLA in an office-of-profit case). But the Governor is still silent.
As many as 48 MLAs voted in favour of the confidence motion in the 81-member Assembly — 29 of the JMM, 15 of the Congress, one each of RJD, NCP and CPIML(L) and an Independent — even as the BJP walked out of the House.
Soren said the need for the trust vote was felt as the BJP was “attempting to destabilise democratically elected Governments” in non-BJP-ruled States, including Jharkhand.