Jamshedpur : On the last day of the JMM convention former Chief Minister Hemant Soren was elected the executive president of the party by bringing an amendment in the party constitution.� This was the first instance when a post of executive president was created in the JMM party�s four decade long history.
Emotions ran high as the name of junior Soren was announced at the convention. Tears rolled down his eyes as his name was announced. He took blessings from Shibu Soren and said that he will work hard to full fill the party�s mission in Jharkhand. The party also announced Shibu Soren as the president.
Soren also criticised the three month rule of Raghubar Das led state government and said that the CM is only making announcements and working on dictates from Union Government.
JMM will soon launch a movement for a “greater Jharkhand” comprising areas in bordering districts of Bengal and Odisha. A political resolution to this effect was passed on the second day of the JMM’s three-day central convention at Gopal Maidan in Bistupur.
According to party general secretary and spokesperson Supriyo Bhattacharya, “Greater Jharkhand” would comprise not only Jharkhand but also adjoining districts of Purulia, Bankura, East Midnapore (excluding Kharagpur), Burdwan, Birbhum and Asansol in Bengal, and districts of Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar and Sundergarh in Odisha.
“We will chalk out a future course of action to mount pressure on Odisha and Bengal to constitute an Autonomous Development Council (ADC) comprising these tribal-dominated districts as per constitutional process. At the moment, I cannot specify a time-frame as a new central committee of our party will soon meet state committees of Bengal and Odisha and chalk out strategies,” he said.
Around 200 political resolutions were recommended during the ongoing central convention. The convention also passed a resolution, demanding that the Centre release a state figure on farmers who were untrained and uneducated.
The central convention, held after every three years, is being held in city for the third time in the party four-decade long history, witnessed around 4,000 delegates not only from Jharkhand but also from neighbouring states of Odisha, Bengal, Assam, Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar.��Earlier, the central convention was held in Karandih (1997) and Dimna Lake (2003).
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