Mira Munda new hope for BJP as woman leader

Vijay Deo Jha Ranchi

While most of the better half of the politicians of Jharkhand prefers to stay at home, the BJP leader Arjun Munda is learnt to have charted another way for his wife Mira Munda. The conspicuous presence of Mira at Matri Sakti Sammelan, where the RSS chief KC Sudarshan along with the Hindu firebrand Sadhvi Ritambhara, had come to participate had several political overtures. On this both Mira and Munda commented that her presence in the programme had no connection to her joining active politics, but the sources confided that Mira who shared dais with Sudarshan has a definite indication that the RSS sees her as a potential woman leader who could tap the voters. Also the sources close to Munda said that the later would field his wife in active politics. The State BJP is also learnt to be eager to encash her non controversial image. She will be launched in the politics only after calculated exercise and celebrated exposure. Accordingly, the party has planned for the media exposure of Mira during the next Lok Sabha poll in the State. In the past too Mira campaigned at Kharsawa, the home constituency of Munda as well as Chaibasa, Jamshedpur, Jharia and Bermo during the last Assembly elections. A section of party leaders wanted her to contest the elections of Mayor in Ranchi Municipal Corporation. What might favour the advent of Mira in the politics is the fact that the State BJP currently has no woman leader to catch a big chunk of voters besides Rita Verma. In the last meeting of the working committee of the State BJP, the party is learnt to made special emphasis upon rejuvenating the women cell of the party. Commenting over the possibility of Mira fighting elections in the State in near future a senior BJP functionary said that during the opinion taking exercise for the LS elections in the state the name of Mira prominently figured for Dumka parliamentary constituency. But Mira would like to count more upon her own political acumen rather to bank upon the political clout and appeal of Munda, her husband.