Ranchi, April 30: With BJP pondering over the JMM’s offer to hand over the reins of a new Jharkhand government to its candidate, lobbying for the coveted post has already begun.
According to BJP insiders, ex-cm and party’s national general secretary Arjun Munda and Deputy Chief Minister Raghuvar Das have ‘stepped up lobbying’.
The BJP Parliamentary Board this morning decided to put on hold its decision to withdraw support to the Shibu Soren government after receiving a letter from JMM leader Hemant Soren expressing willingness to support a government led by BJP.
Munda, a two-time Chief Minister, has an edge over Das as Hemant Soren last night made it clear that the party would prefer a tribal chief minister. Das is a non-tribal.
Though Jharkhand is set to witness its eighth government in over nine years, no non-tribal has ever become a chief minister.
–PTI