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Babulal Marandi's JVM(P) merges with BJP

Amit Shah assured the former Jharkhand CM that he will get his due respect and responsibility in the BJP.

PTI Ranchi Published 17.02.20, 10:10 AM
Union home minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah welcomes Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) chief Babulal Marandi as he merged his JVM-P party with the BJP, in Jagannathpur area of Ranchi, Monday, February 17, 2020

Union home minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah welcomes Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) chief Babulal Marandi as he merged his JVM-P party with the BJP, in Jagannathpur area of Ranchi, Monday, February 17, 2020 PTI

Former Jharkhand chief minister Babulal Marandi's party Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) on Monday merged with the BJP.

Union home minister Amit Shah welcomed Marandi, the first chief minister of Jharkhand, and his supporters into his party at a rally in Ranchi.

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Shah also assured the tribal leader that he will get his due respect and responsibility in the BJP.

'I am delighted that Babulal Marandi has returned to the BJP. I was working for his return since 2014 when I became the party president,' Shah told the well-attended rally.

He also raised the Ayodhya issue and withdrawal of special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.

'Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ensured Kashmir becomes an integral part of India forever by scrapping articles 370 and 35(A) of the Constitution,' he said.

Marandi was the chief minister of Jharkhand from November 2000 to March 2003.

A four-time former MP, he gradually drifted away from the BJP and launched his own outfit—Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)—in 2006.

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