New Delhi: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) working president Hemant Soren slammed the BJP for allegedly politicising the Pulwama terror attack and has said ‘politics over dead bodies’ will not fetch votes.
The former Jharkhand Chief Minister, who is here to hold talks with grand alliance members for firming up the tie-up, said the government should do its job and allow the security forces to theirs. The forces are competent at giving a befitting reply, he said.
““What about the people who are dying because of hunger, farmers committing suicide, people are unemployed on a large scale? You (BJP-led government at the Centre) don’t give answers to that. Doing politics over dead bodies will not fetch votes,” he said during an interaction with a group of reporters here Saturday evening.
“They (the government) talk about Pulwama, what about the jawans being killed in suicide attacks regularly. Most of the jawans come from an agriculture background. So, at home the farmer is dying of hunger and at the border his son is getting killed,” Soren added.
Soren also alleged that the families of the jawans killed from his state are all ‘duped’” and given no benefits.
“When jawans get killed, their bodies go to respective states and the BJP plays politics. People have now understood their games,” asserted the JMM top boss.
Soren said the JMM besides raising the issues of water, jungle and land, will also aggressively take up unemployment and negligence of farmers in the Lok Sabha and later in the Assembly polls.
The JMM leader alleged that the development of Jharkhand under the BJP government is only on paper. “There is nothing to show on the ground,” he said.
Soren also said the grand alliance in Jharkhand has been officially sealed for the Lok Sabha polls. The JMM, along with the Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal, and Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) comprise the alliance. There is also a consensus to include the Left if it agrees on the seat sharing formula, details of which are still under wraps.
“The fight against @BJP India & BJP4Jharkhand in GeneralElections2019 is a momentous one and the future Jharkhand depends on the combined Grand Alliance which is now officially sealed,” Soren tweeted late Saturday night.
PTI