CM Hemant Soren Takes Command Of Dumri Assembly By-poll

Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren took charge of Dumri Assembly by-election from Saturday. He addressed the election rally in Telobandh Kochatand Maidan of Telo-5 in favour of JMM candidate Baby Devi. Addressing the gathering, he said that the NDA has divided the state during its 20-year rule. “We are working on improving it, but it will take some time.” He said that when Jharkhand became a separate state, there was 27 per cent reservation for backward people.
The CM said that before the separation of the state, there was Khatian in 1932, but the NDA government reduced the reservation to 14 per cent. At the same time, he said, “the Khatian Act of 1932 was complicated and amended in 1985, but we are trying to increase the reservation for tribals.” He said that if Corona did not allow us to work for a year, then the opposition also plotted to topple the government, but we remained firm. Several by-elections were held, in which the opposition was defeated in almost all of them.
“In this by-election too, the public will respond by confiscating the bail of the opposition. Because the government which imposes tax on flour, rice, milk, curd and closes 11 lakh ration cards in the state is working to poison the people by playing Hindu-Muslim politics. But JMM does politics with dignity and self respect. We are fighting for the tribals-natives, dalits-backward people of Jharkhand. I have never compromised with my self-respect and never will,” the Chief Minister said.
Voting for Dumri by-election will be held on September 5, while the results will be announced on September 8. This seat fell vacant after the death of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MLA Jagarnath Mahato, who was the Education Minister in the state government.