Ranchi: The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), which is leading an alliance govt in the state, is awaiting to hear from Congress on the modalities of seat-sharing before taking a call on releasing its list of candidates for the impending assembly polls in Assam, party spokesperson said on Thursday.Addressing the media, JMM’s central general secretary Surpiyo Bhattacharjee said, “Recently, Congress delegation had come to meet our party president and CM Hemant Soren and talks are underway. This is why we haven’t made any announcement of prospective candidates.”
Notably, Soren had already undertaken two trips to Assam for pre-poll rallies there ahead of the announcement of election. However, JMM, which is also nursing to ambitions to contest in Bengal, is yet to begin active posturing in the neighbouring poll-bound state. “Going aggressive in Assam is also a political compulsion for us to tighten the current CM there who is also highly ‘communal’ and ‘divisive’,” he said.Election in Assam, having 126 seats, is slated to take place on April 9 and results will be out on May 4.Party insiders stressed that they are optimistic of Congress being more accommodative this time to keep like-minded parties together in Assam polls, taking lessons from its decimation in Bihar elections, where JMM had to back out of the polls in the last moment after being denied respectable seats.
