The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha on Saturday decided to put in coordinated efforts of like-minded parties to ensure win in the upcoming Madhupur bye election. The decision was taken in the executive committee meeting and legislative body meeting chaired by party president cum Rajya Sabha MP Shibu Soren here on Saturday.
Party Spokesperson cum General Secretary Vinod Pandey said that in the meetings present political scenario, Madhupur bypoll and organizational issues were discussed and all office bearers, MLAs and MPs presented their views on the issues.
For Madhupur bye-election, a strategy was established to ensure a historic victory of the Grand Alliance candidate by establishing coordination with all the allies and like-minded parties. Party officials and MLAs were given various responsibilities for the Madhupur election.
The meeting was mainly attended by the Executive President of the party Hemant Soren, Vice President Stephen Marandi, Champai Soren, Shashank Shekhar Bhokta, Mathura Prasad Mahato, General Secretary Sita Soren, Vinod Kumar Pandey, Supriyo Bhattacharya, Vijay Kumar Singh , Sudivya Kumar Sonu, Lobin Hembram, Mohan Karmakar, Santosh Rajwar, Mithilesh Thakur, Babulal Soren, Secretary Yogendra Prasad, Sanjeev Bedia, Joba Manjhi, Raju Giri, Sheikh Badruddin, Ganesh Chaudhary , Spokesman Abhishek Prasad Pintu, Manoj Pandey, Minority Morcha President Hidayatullah Khan, Mahila Morcha President Mahua Majhi, Business Front President Amitesh Sahai, Sports Front President Manoj Yadav, Student Front President Amit Kumar and many other officials, including all MLAs.
At the end of the meeting, a two-minute collective silence was observed to pay tributes to senior party leader, guardian and central vice-president, Late Haji Hussain Ansari ji, eminent litterateur-educationist-linguist late Bhubaneswar Anuj and many party colleagues at the district level.
The JMM has fielded the son of late Haji Hussain Ansari and state minority affairs minister Hafizul Hasan from Madhupur by poll. The BJP has fielded Ganga Narayan Singh, who switched sides from AJSU a few days back.
The battle of Madhupur is a litmus test for both the alliance as BJP has already stated that in Madhupur by-poll Tamar episode will be repeated. In January 2009, then Chief Minister Shibu Soren lost the bye-election of Tamar Assembly seat to Jharkhand Party candidate Gopal Krishna Patar, aka Raja Peter by a margin of 9,062 votes. The defeat cost Soren Jharkhand chief minister's seat.