Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, wife Kalpana meet Sonia Gandhi
Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren and his wife Kalpana Soren also met Sunita Kejriwal
Days after taking charge as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Hemant Soren and his wife Kalpana Soren met Congress Parliamentary Party chief Sonia Gandhi and Sunita Kejriwal, the wife of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, in New Delhi on July 13.
They met Ms. Gandhi at her 10 Janpath residence in national capital.
Describing the meeting as a courtesy call, Mr. Soren said he had come to meet Ms. Gandhi as they had not met her after the Lok Sabha elections and since he came out of jail.
"Discussions for Jharkhand Assembly elections will continue…there was no discussion about polls," Mr. Soren said when asked whether the upcoming Assembly polls in Jharkhand were discussed with Ms. Gandhi.
"Indians are very sensitive and tolerant. They tolerate a lot until they cannot and then they make themselves heard by voting," he told reporters after meeting Ms. Gandhi. He also hoped that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would be granted bail soon.
Jharkhand Chief Minister also met Sunita Kejriwal, the wife of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal who is in jail in connection with the corruption case, in the Delhi chief minister’s official residence. AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh was also present at the meeting.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) posted a video of the meeting on ‘X’ and captioned it “INDIA is united against dictatorship”.
Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Mr. Kejriwal was arrested by ED on March 21 in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam. The Supreme Court granted him interim bail on Friday but he will remain in jail as the CBI had arrested him in a related matter.
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) executive president had resigned as the Chief Minister before his arrest on January 31 by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money-laundering case linked to an alleged land scam. After spending around five months in prison, he secured bail and became Chief Minister again on July 4. While granting him bail, the Jharkhand High Court has held that prima facie he is not guilty of the offence and there is no likelihood that he would commit an offence while on bail.
The JMM and the Congress are alliance partners in the Soren-led government. Assembly elections in the State are scheduled to take place later this year.
The issue of Mr. Soren and Mr. Kejriwal’s arrest by the central probe agency was prominently raised by the leaders of the opposition INDIA bloc during the Lok Sabha poll campaigning.
Kalpana Soren and Sunita Kejriwal had also joined the poll campaigning on behalf of their jailed husbands and raised voices against their arrests.
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