Congress discusses with JMM, JVM for 2019 Grand Alliance in Jharkhand

New Delhi:

Congress is in talks with the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and Jharkhand Vikas Morcha to form a large alliance for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in Jharkhand, said AICC in charge of the state.

Affirming that the party wants to forge state-by-state partnerships, AICC in charge of Jharkhand RPN Singh told Congressman Rahul Gandhi, said the Congress would consider state-level alliances with like-minded parties to take the BJP in 2019.

In an interview with PTI, Mr. Singh said that a big alliance was the cards in Jharkhand for the Lok Sabha polls and the talks were going to "tighten things".

"We are in talks with JMM, we are in talks with the JVM We would like a big alliance in Jharkhand … with JMM, JVM, RJD (Rashtriya Janata Dal) and other like-minded parties He said that even though negotiations were underway for an alliance, the party was also preparing all 81 seats in the badembly as Vidhan Sabha's polls were also due next year., And he wanted to be ready for elections whether in an alliance or alone.

Emphasizing that the opposition was united in the state, Mr. Singh cites the example of Rajya Sabha polls in Jharkhand where parties such as JMM, JVM, RJD, Communist Party, supported the Congress candidate.

"We talked to everyone and reached out to everyone. We had proposed a candidate, even though we had only 7 deputies. All parties supported us and we won the election against the BJP, "said Singh, who is also a spokesman for the Congress

.The main opposition, Mr. Singh said that he fought on fewer seats than his coalition partners where it is not the biggest opposition party, while in states such as Madhya Pradesh he had larger shares being The main opposition party. "Giving examples, Mr. Singh said," In Bihar, when the last state elections were held, or in the Lok Sabha elections earlier also, the Congress challenged fewer seats than the RJD.The last time, for the state badembly, we certainly fought fewer seats than Nitish Kumar or the RJD. "In the Lok Sabha, we are already in alliance with the RJD and certainly we will not argue as many seats as Similarly in Uttar Pradesh, in the last Elder Vidhan Sabha (polls) we had challenged with SP where we were playing the second violin, so yes, you can only have one alliance where you play on your strengths and what is your position in that state. "If the division of seats in the states could be an obstacle to the realization of the great alliance," said Mr. Singh, "for a coalition, we must get rid of the egos and take into account the factors."

"If people engage in small bargaining and small ego, no coalition really works. he said.

On congressional strategy for f He stated that in some states the party had succeeded in working on coalitions, while in others it was trying to work with like-minded parties. "

State partnerships, in the broadest sense that we could call the Mahagathbandhan, but our main focus is from state to state," said Mr. Singh

at the time Assembly of deputies in May, the JMM, supported by Congress and other opposition parties. , had kept the seats of the badembly Silli and Gomia, ringing the bell of the BJP in power before the general election next year.

Hemming Soren, leader of the WMD, described it as a victory of the opposition unit and said: In the last polls of Lok Sabha in 2014, the BJP had won 12 of the 14 seats and the JMM had 2, while the Congress pulled a blank.

In the 82-member Jharkhand Assembly, the BJP has 43 seats, while its partner AJSU Party has 4 seats. The Congress has seven deputies, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 19 and JVM 2.

Asked if the young leaders like him, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sachin Pilot would lead the congressional charge in 2019, Mr. Singh said that the leader from the party said that there is "Yes, with the advent of Rahul Gandhi as president, there has been an increase in the number of young people who have had opportunities and so there is the feeling that charge will be I think it will be a mix (of older and younger people), "he said