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In touch with Congress,all options open: Soren

Keeping the BJP guessing,the JMM said it was in touch with the Congress and all options were open.

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Keeping the BJP guessing,the JMM today said it was in touch with the Congress and all options were open including changing its alliance.

“It is for the BJP to look for options. I am in touch with both and the Congress and BJP. All options are open. My government will stay,” Shibu Soren,who has to step down as chief minister by June 30 if he is not elected to the assembly by then,told reporters here.

Striking a defiant note,the JMM chief had yesterday said he would complete his tenure,backtracking on his May 18 statement that he will resign after the party reached an agreement with the BJP for sharing power on a rotational basis with the BJP to head the government first.

His son,Hemant Soren,JMM’s legislative party leader was more forthright.

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