There have been few instances of political opportunism in India but nothing could match what’s happening in Jharakhand at present moment. Last closest incident which comes to mind was the opportunism and chaos which prevailed in Karnataka when former PM H D Deve Gowda and his son H D Kumaraswamy held the state to their ransom by playing all tricks to keep them in the power. A same scenario is happening here in Jharkhand. Shibu Soren, known more for his notoriety than his work, has done anything and almost everything to keep himself in power. It is no hidden secret that there have been several charges levelled against him but that doesn’t stop Congress or BJP to align with him to fulfil their selfish agenda.
The entire episode started with Shibu Soren voting with the congress in one of the bills passed in the parliament. This resulted in the anger of BJP, ally of JMM in the state. To make the matter worse the new president of BJP, Nitin Nadkari, in haste, decided to sever ties with JMM in the state. Now both congress and BJP knows that they cannot form a government in Jharkhand without the support of JMM, which has given them the role of King Maker in the state. After realising its mistake BJP tried to salvage the coalition by deciding on some power sharing formula with half the tenure having a chief Minister from BJP and other half under the tenure of JMM’s chief minister. But with the kind of opportunist political party JMM is they realised this was not in their benefit especially the kind of power they possess. So now once again Shibu Soren has decided that he is not going to resign and will complete his tenure.
This political circus involving three parties JMM, Congress and BJP is there for a quite a long time in Jharkhand and now needs some serious mending. I hope the people of the state would make sure they won't select political opportunist parties to power. But having said that it's really difficult to identify who is and who is not.
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