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Return to NDA, Naqvi tells Soren

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday urged Jharkhand Mukti Morcha chief Shibu Soren to return to the National Democratic Alliance if he wanted to retain his party's support base in Jharkhand.

BJP national secretary and in-charge of the party's Jharkhand affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Soren committed the biggest political blunder by deciding to join hands with Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Laloo Prasad Yadav whose strong opposition to the creation of Jharkhand was a known fact.

"People of Jharkhand have still not forgotten Laloo's tough resistance to the creation of Jharkhand and Soren's pact with Laloo will prove suicidal for the JMM supremo," Naqvi told journalists in Ranchi.

If Soren is interested in the well-being of the JMM, he should get back to the NDA without further delay, he added.

With the installation of a BJP-led NDA government in Jharkhand, the dark era of RJD misrule is over but people are yet to get out of their sense of insecurity bred by the compulsion of living for long in anarchic conditions, he said.

''The NDA government in Jharkhand will ushers in an era of peace and perfect order," the BJP national secretary said.

Naqvi was confident that NDA would prove its majority on the floor of the 81-member Jharkhand assembly before the time-frame of 15 days given by Governor Prabhat Kumar to Chief Minister Babulal Marandi.

He said the NDA had already mustered the support of 45 legislators and that the number was bound to go up by the time the House was convened on Monday.

Naqvi dismissed allegations that the Jharkhand governor was one of the accused in the Babri mosque demolition case.

"Will it be fair not to give any constitutional responsibility to all those bureaucrats who were posted in Ayodhya at the time of the demolition of the Babri mosque?" Naqvi asked.

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