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26 September 2024
As the Election Commission of India has completed its groundwork to conduct the Assembly polls before end of this year, a war of words between the ruling JMM leader and Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Opposition BJP leader Amar Kumar Bauri has escalated.
ECI has given hints that the Assembly polls can be notified in the coming month of October. Ahead of it, Bauri has asserted that the RSS is not ‘rats' as dubbed by Hemant Soren but ‘Hindu lions'.
Bauri has sharply accused him( Soren) of patronizing Bangladeshi infiltrators for political gains.
In fact, Soren, also the executive president of the ruling JMM, had on Wednesday compared the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh with "rats" and accused both the BJP and the RSS of attempting to break communal harmony in the state for the sake of garnering votes.
In a sharp response, Bauri said, "Hemant Soren compared RSS with rats. This is an insult to the 'Hindu lions' who are working to restore the glory of Sanatan dharma. Soren is working according to George Soros's pattern. For petty political gains, he (Soren) is patronising Bangladeshi infiltrators.”
Bauri and other BJP leaders have been accusing external forces such as Soros, a Hungarian-born US billionaire, of targeting the Indian democratic system so that people hand-picked by him get to run the government.
Responding to Soren's remarks that demographic changes did not occur in Jharkhand, Bauri claimed that the chief minister was concerned only about him and his family and their welfare. Bauri said, "The place Bhognadih from where he( Hemant Soren)said there was no demographic change, has been the main centre of the Santhal revolt of 1855. I want to ask him how only seven Santhal families were left there out of 40,000. Where did they vanish if there are no demographic changes?"
“On 30 June 1855, a large number of Santhals assembled in a field in Bhognadih and declared themselves free. They took an oath under the leadership of Sidho Murmu and Kanhu Murmu to fight to the last against the British rulers as well as their agents.”
While addressing a rally at Bhognadih in Sahibganj, Soren had claimed that the BJP is sowing discord between Hindu and Muslim communities.
Soren was specifically referring to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's attack against his government. Sarma is the BJP's election co-incharge in Jharkhand.
"RSS is invading the state like rats and destroying it. Chase such forces away when you see them entering your villages with 'handia' and 'daru' (locally brewed liquor)...They want to create communal disturbances and tension ahead of elections for political gains," Soren said while speaking at the rally virtually from Ranchi.
Also, Soren questioned the Assam CM's presence in Jharkhand while tribals in his own state allegedly faced atrocities.
This remark of the CM Soren was criticised by Bauri on Thursday.
