Former Jharkhand CM Champai Soren has stated that he will not quit politics and is open to launching a new party.
This comes days after he had announced that he was considering three options: retiring, starting a new party, or joining another party.
Arpit Pattnaik
With the Assembly elections around the corner, former Jharkhand chief minister Champai Soren stated that he will not be quitting politics and that he was open to forming a new party.
“It is a new chapter of my life. I won’t quit politics as I have received lots of love and support from my followers. The chapter has closed, I may form a new outfit,” the senior Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader was quoted as saying by news agency PTI shortly after he reached his ancestral village Jhilingora in Seraikela-Kharsawan district.
This comes days after he had announced that he was considering three options — to retire, start a new party, or join another party.
In a post on the social media platform X on Sunday, Champai claimed that on July 3, days after Hemant Soren walked out of prison after being granted bail by the Jharkhand High Court, all his scheduled programs were canceled without any explanation. “When I asked about the reasons for cancellation, I was told that there is a meeting of party legislators on July 3 and I cannot attend any government programs till then,” he wrote.
“When the party’s central executive meeting has not been held for years, and one-sided orders are passed, then whom should I go to and tell my problems? I am counted among the senior members in this party, the rest are juniors, and the supremo who is senior to me is no longer active in politics due to health, then what option did I have? If he had been active, perhaps the situation would have been different,” he had said.
JMM sources had said that differences had emerged within the party after it denied Champai’s request to make his son its candidate from the Ghatshila seat in the upcoming Assembly polls. “He (Champai) is just building a premise to quit and thus many baseless stories are being spread. It is clear he went to Kolkata and reportedly met BJP leaders. Everything will be clear if and when he joins the BJP,” a JMM leader had said.
