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Call to dismiss Arjun Munda Government

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, MARCH 18. The United Progressive Alliance delegation from Jharkhand today urged the Centre to dismiss the "Illegitimate" Government in Ranchi and order a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation.

In a memorandum to the President, the Prime Minister, the Lok Sabha Speaker and the Home Minister, the delegation alleged that the National Democratic Alliance leaders had "deliberately created a situation of misrepresenting the fact" before the people so that "illegal activities of horse-trading could go on unchecked."

The delegation said recent developments in Jharkhand would challenge the country's well-entrenched democratic norms and attached a sequence of events which they said disclosed the occurrences leading to the formation of the Government there.

Norms violated

"It would reveal that in blatant violation of the democratic norms, large scale horse-trading amounting to several crores of Rupees coupled with misuse of State machinery was the order of the day. Despite a clear-cut majority, we were deprived of an opportunity to prove the majority because of blatant illegal activities of the NDA team, both at the State as well as the Centre," the memorandum said.

The delegation was headed by Stephen Marandi and included State MPs Subodh Kant Sahai, Shibu Soren, Sushila Kerketta, Tek Lal Mahato, Suni Kumar Mahto, Dhirendra Agarwalm and Tariq Anwar. Jharkhand MLAs Pradeep Balmuchu, Dulal Bhuian, Niel Tireky, Sudhir Mahto and Bandhu Tireky were also part of the delegation.

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