Tuesday, March 8 2005 19:54 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Charging the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party)-led NDA (National Democratic Alliance) in Jharkhand with applying 'illegal' methods to remain in power, Chief Minister Shibu Soren's JMM (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha) on Tuesday (March 8, 2005) said it would launch a State-wide agitation from Wednesday (March 9, 2005) to 'expose' how the saffron party "hijacked the democratic norms."

"The BJP-led NDA looted the State exchequer during the last four years. Now they are applying all illegal methods to remain in power so that corruption committed by them should not be uncovered. We will tell the people about their deeds," JMM General Secretary Sunil Mahto told sources in New Delhi.

We are going to hold rallies and demonstrations from village to district level in the State from tomorrow to expose BJP and how its leadership has hijacked the democratic norms," he said adding, "The tribal population will be told how BJP Government in its last stint fooled them on the pretext of development."

Mahto also criticised former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani for his comments against Governor Sayed Sibte Razi, saying it threatened to disturb communal harmony in the State.

The JMM MP claimed it was because of the 'unmindful' comments of Advani that BJP workers demonstrated in an 'uncivilized' manner by throwing tomatoes and eggs when Razi arrived from Delhi after meeting President A P J Abdul Kalam.

He alleged that former Chief Minister Arjun Munda has become so desperate to remain in power that he indulged in 'hooliganism' and 'kidnapped' five independent MLAs, some of whom had pledged to support the UPA combine.