Guruji is no Gandhiji: unhappy days again in the JMM
Vijay Deo Jha
Ranchi
The JMM chief Shibu Soren, aka Guruji is no Gandhiji.
For the British they could not prevail upon Mahatma Gandhi to accept the ‘post date cheque on a crashing bank’ of the Cripps Mission. And 67 years later, the Congress easily prevailed upon Guruji that a JMM led government would be ‘installed’ in Jharkhand soon after the UPA comes back to the power after the general elections 2009.
Nevertheless, similarity between that ‘Cripps deal’ and this Congress deal is remarkably tough but it is a ‘just’ reference point to proceed how Soren believed this promise which is still not taken very seriously by the Congress insiders.
Guruji will contest the by-election from Jamtara assembly constituency hoping to head the next JMM government. The JMM announced to join the Congress led UPA wagon in Jharkhand in the forth coming general elections.
But unhappy days are here again in the JMM. The JMM insiders are now whispering: after Tamar the Congress again fooled Guruji. “He has always been a gullible customer for the Congress…he lost the chance to pressurize the Congress to install the JMM led government for which he suffered humiliation and mud slinging” said a senior party leader.
“The deal has been done and that too on the paper that the JMM led government in Jharkhand will be installed after the UPA comes to power”, the chief whip of the party Mathura Mahto announced this week.
It brought relief for the Congress which was wary about the electoral pact with the JMM that it fear might sink if the Congress did make a solid promise to Soren in this regard.
The decision left such a bitter taste in the mouth of that yours truly—Mathura Mahto who was virtually forced to change his hard line against the Congress. But Mahto conceded the continuous change in stand; thrice in a day; can not help any party and politician to gain credibility.
Mahto neither talked about that deal whose fate largely depends upon the performance of the UPA in the election nor he spoke about Soren. Yet what he said is easy to comprehend.
Mahto was one among the JMM hardliners along with another party MLA Salkhan Soren who wanted the party to adopt a tough posture and even go to the elections on its own. The group had the support of Durga Soren, son of the JMM chief and party’s general secretary.
Is Guruji in the command of the things in the party after he lost by-election of Tamar? The party insiders told that Guruji was deliberately being overshadowed by two of his MPs Hemlal Murmu and Teklal Mahto over crucial decisions.
The Congress sources confided that the JMM MPs who did want a rupture in relation with the Congress at the time of election were more active to go for the deal.
“The Congress has just applied balm over the injured sentiment of the JMM to fight election together and there is nothing beyond that”, said a senior Congress leader and MLA.
“The formation of the JMM led government is very remote and how you can strike a deal of this kind without consulting the independent MLAs who actually hold the key”, the leader further said.
If not Hemant Soren, his elder Durga understands this. “Kaun sa deal aur kisa deal, ye deal kya baba (Guruji) ne kiya hai”, Durga reacted sharply against his own party leaders; read Hemlal Murmu and Teklal Mahto.
Terming it propaganda by his own party men to remove Guruji from the scene Durga said: “The Congress and some others are trying to sell this dream but even if the JMM forms the government we will have less time to show our work as the assembly elections of Jharkhand will be held the next year.”
Will Guruji hear Durga in the post Tamar fiasco?
EoM
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The JMM chief Shibu Soren, aka Guruji is no Gandhiji.
For the British they could not prevail upon Mahatma Gandhi to accept the ‘post date cheque on a crashing bank’ of the Cripps Mission. And 67 years later, the Congress easily prevailed upon Guruji that a JMM led government would be ‘installed’ in Jharkhand soon after the UPA comes back to the power after the general elections 2009.
Nevertheless, similarity between that ‘Cripps deal’ and this Congress deal is remarkably tough but it is a ‘just’ reference point to proceed how Soren believed this promise which is still not taken very seriously by the Congress insiders.
Guruji will contest the by-election from Jamtara assembly constituency hoping to head the next JMM government. The JMM announced to join the Congress led UPA wagon in Jharkhand in the forth coming general elections.
But unhappy days are here again in the JMM. The JMM insiders are now whispering: after Tamar the Congress again fooled Guruji. “He has always been a gullible customer for the Congress…he lost the chance to pressurize the Congress to install the JMM led government for which he suffered humiliation and mud slinging” said a senior party leader.
“The deal has been done and that too on the paper that the JMM led government in Jharkhand will be installed after the UPA comes to power”, the chief whip of the party Mathura Mahto announced this week.
It brought relief for the Congress which was wary about the electoral pact with the JMM that it fear might sink if the Congress did make a solid promise to Soren in this regard.
The decision left such a bitter taste in the mouth of that yours truly—Mathura Mahto who was virtually forced to change his hard line against the Congress. But Mahto conceded the continuous change in stand; thrice in a day; can not help any party and politician to gain credibility.
Mahto neither talked about that deal whose fate largely depends upon the performance of the UPA in the election nor he spoke about Soren. Yet what he said is easy to comprehend.
Mahto was one among the JMM hardliners along with another party MLA Salkhan Soren who wanted the party to adopt a tough posture and even go to the elections on its own. The group had the support of Durga Soren, son of the JMM chief and party’s general secretary.
Is Guruji in the command of the things in the party after he lost by-election of Tamar? The party insiders told that Guruji was deliberately being overshadowed by two of his MPs Hemlal Murmu and Teklal Mahto over crucial decisions.
The Congress sources confided that the JMM MPs who did want a rupture in relation with the Congress at the time of election were more active to go for the deal.
“The Congress has just applied balm over the injured sentiment of the JMM to fight election together and there is nothing beyond that”, said a senior Congress leader and MLA.
“The formation of the JMM led government is very remote and how you can strike a deal of this kind without consulting the independent MLAs who actually hold the key”, the leader further said.
If not Hemant Soren, his elder Durga understands this. “Kaun sa deal aur kisa deal, ye deal kya baba (Guruji) ne kiya hai”, Durga reacted sharply against his own party leaders; read Hemlal Murmu and Teklal Mahto.
Terming it propaganda by his own party men to remove Guruji from the scene Durga said: “The Congress and some others are trying to sell this dream but even if the JMM forms the government we will have less time to show our work as the assembly elections of Jharkhand will be held the next year.”
Will Guruji hear Durga in the post Tamar fiasco?
EoM
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