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RANCHI, DECEMBER 22: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Mandal faction) general secretary Prabhakar Tirkey on Wednesday ruled out any chance of his party aligning with the Rashtriya Janata Dal in the coming Assembly polls.
The party, he said, would maintain equi-distance from the `anti-Jharkhand’ RJD and the `communal’ BJP. However, it might go with the Congress and the Left and democratic parties, if they proved their honesty on Jharkhand.
The RJD and the BJP were the two sides of the same coin as the former had openly opposed the State’s creation, while the latter was conspiring to stall the statehood fanning contradiction within its own coalition, he said.
Tirkey, he said he personally felt those fighting for state-hood must not contest the Assembly elections for a united Bihar. “I am not going to contest the Assembly polls”.
Reacting to Shibu Soren’s reported statement calling upon the people for a movement for the creation of Jharkhand, Tirkey said, “Why should people believe Soren when during his18-year parliamentary career he never raised the demands of this region”.
