JMM leaders to meet BJP chief on Jharkhand issue

New Delhi, May 01: Fresh efforts for a rapprochement with BJP are expected to be initiated by JMM with Hemant Soren, son of beleaguered Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu soren, arriving here today with senior leaders to meet BJP chief Nitin Gadkari.

Significantly, JMM leader Haji Hussain Ansari, Champai Soren and Teklal Mahato, who have demanded that Soren should continue as Chief Minister were with Hemant, who has taken a lead in forming an alternative government.

BJP top brass is engaged in discussions on the next course of action in Jharkhand with the state unit divided on the issue of continuing to do business with JMM.
–PTI