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| Jharkhand under Prez rule | | | AGENCIES
New Delhi, Jan 19: The government on Monday recommended imposition of President's rule in Jharkhand, keeping the 81-member state assembly under suspended animation, official sources said.
This was decided at a brief unscheduled meeting of the union cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Governor Syed Sibte Razi faxed a letter to the central government late Sunday saying that the political instability in the state since the resignation of Shibu Soren as chief minister on Jan 12 had led to uncertainty.
Interestingly, political instability appears to have become synonymous with Jharkhand which has seen six governments in a span of eight years.
Ever since the state was carved out of Bihar in November 2000, a stable government has remained elusive with JMM chief Shibu Soren holding the reins of the state for as brief a period as ten days in 2005.
Even the longest serving Chief Minister Babulal Marandi could last for little over two years and was forced to pave the way for his BJP colleague Arjun Munda in the face of strident criticism of his style of functioning by rebel MLAs.
The first Assembly elections in 2005 threw up a hung house and saw Soren taking over the mantle of the state.
However, his chair turned out to be shaky as Soren could remain in the saddle for just 10 days.
Failing to muster support on the floor of the House, he bowed out of office and the BJP once again came to power, with Arjun Munda this time again heading the government which lasted for barely one and half years.
Rebellion again stared the fledgling government at its face and Munda was toppled by an independent MLA Madhu Koda -- a dark horse backed by UPA parties, Congress and RJD, besides some independents.
The Koda government was the fifth the state saw since its birth and the third permutation combination within the present assembly.
The trust vote in the Lok Sabha sought by the Manmohan Singh government in July after Left parties withdrew support on the nuclear deal issue, brought Soren back to the centre stage of state politics.
With five party MPs crucial for the survival of the UPA government at the Centre, Soren, fresh from acquittal in a murder case, bargained for chief ministership which he got in August 2008.
But having failed to enter the assembly within the stipulated six months' time-frame by losing a by-election, Soren resigned on January 12 plunging the state into another political turmoil.
The imposition of President's rule today capped the political uncertainty which the state has by now learnt to live with. |
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