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Babulal Marandi Elected Leader of BJP Legislative Party

Feb. 24 Politics Comments

(Ranchi)Babulal Marandi Elected Leader of BJP Legislative Party
Former Jharkhand chief minister Babulal Marandi was on Monday unanimously elected as leader of the BJP Legislative Party.
Marandi had on February 17 merged his Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) (JVM-P) party with the BJP at a formal merger ceremony in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah
MLAs elected their leader on the call of the party’s central observer Muralidhar Rao.
In all, 25 BJP MLAs were present.
Marandi headed the first BJP government in the state in 2000.
He, however, quit the party following differences with the party leadership and floated JVM-P in 2006.
The saffron party had not elected its Legislative Party leader after the state polls in November-December last year.
With the arrival of Marandi, the BJP’s number has swelled to 26 in the Jharkhand Assembly.
The ruling JMM-Congress-RJD has a combined strength of 47 in the House.

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