The ruling JMM said it sees no benefit accruing to Jharkhand after Annapurna Devi's induction into the Union council of ministers since the two other MPs from Jharkhand had done precious little for their home state.

Addressing a press conference on Thursday, JMM’s spokesperson Supriyo Bhattacharjee said, “While BJP may be elated with the fresh induction, we don’t see anything good for the state. It is because, BJP won 12 out of 14 LS seats in the 2019 elections of which two were already in the ministry. None of the MPs till date took any initiatives to assist state government in terms of coordinating or pressuring the central government to provide our dues, be it pending GST, paucity of funds or other assistances. In that context, even don’t expect anything now either.”

Bhattacharjee was referring to Khunti MP Arjun Munda, who is Union minister of tribal affairs, and Tanya Sabha MP Mukthar Abbas Naqvi, tasked with the minority affairs department.

The JMM spokesperson also found fault with the the BJP's claims about the overhauled ministry. “While the BJP is publicising it as the youngest-ever cabinet with many professional/qualified persons, we see it in a different context. BJP’s actual workers and grassroots leaders will never get their due recognition. The reshuffle is yet another testimony to that," he said.

He said, “Annapurna Devi was a borrowed player, who joined the BJP with the one-point agenda of getting a poll ticket from Koderma. Similarly, BJP, which made Babulal Marandi its leader of the legislature party, is again an outsider. He joined the party to save his political career after JVM-P’s performance in last assembly elections. The current BJP state president, Deepak Prakash, who is a Rajya Sabha MP, is also from other party. So is Arjun Mundaji, Sanjay Seth (Ranchi MP) and the like. Where is the place in the party for those who toiled hard for decades to serve the party?”