News Mania / Piyal Chatterjee / 22nd October 2024
Former BJP leaders Dr. Lois Marandi, Kunal Sarangi, and Ganesh Mahali joined Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on Monday in anticipation of the state assembly elections, when they met chief minister Hemant Soren and his wife Kalpana Soren.
After being urged to run for office from Bahrai after being refused a ticket from her home seat of Dumka, Dr. Loise Marandi, the former state vice president of the BJP, joined Hemant Soren’s party. Kunal Sarangi, meanwhile, mentioned his difficulties obtaining a promotion as one of the reasons he left the saffron party.
“I gave 24 years to Dumka so how can I contest the election from Barhait? I know nothing about that place but I know everything about Dumka…so I refused to contest election from Barhait. Party did not listen and fielded someone else from Dumka…I need a platform to serve the people…I spoke to CM Hemant Soren and he welcomed…,” the media quoted Dr Lois Marandi as saying.
Expressing her disappointment with the saffron party after being denied Dumka constituency, Dr Lois Marandi said, “I gave so much time to the party (BJP), day and night I kept working for the people and obeyed every instruction of the party with at most sincerity but when the elections came, party told me to contest from Barhait.”
“I have come back to my family, it is not a rejoining because this was the platform which was given to me by CM Hemant Soren which offered me an opportunity to enter Jharkhand politics and serve people…now I have returned because when I had joined BJP, I went with a thought that perhaps through a national platform I would get to serve more people…but contrary to that the only parameter that they have is, in order to get promoted…is how many ‘Ganesh parikramas’ you do every day and absolute sycophancy…perhaps you also need to have few degrees in corruption,” Sarangi said
“So these are the learnings that I have received in the last four and half years stay in that party and I am very happy that I have retured to where I started my politcial journey from,” he added.
