BJP MLAs meet on Jharkhand government formation
Two senior BJP leaders Rajnath Singh and Anant Kumar attended the BJP legislature party meeting.
Newly elected BJP MLAs met today to decide on supporting JMM chief Shibu Soren as the new chief minister.
JMM vice-president Hemlal Murmu yesterday claimed that the BJP and AJSU have agreed to support Soren.
In the 81-member Assembly, JMM and BJP have 18 MLAs each, while JD(U), an ally of BJP, has 2 MLAs and All Jharkhand Students Union five - adding to 43.
Two senior BJP leaders Rajnath Singh and Anant Kumar attended the BJP legislature party meeting.
Congress has made it clear that it was not in a hurry to initiate talks for government formation in Jharkhand and would do so without any preconditions. While Congress has 14 seats, its ally Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik has 11 MLAs.