Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren became the third non-BJP CM to be booed by BJP workers in the presence of PM Narendra Modi at a function in Ranchi to inaugurate a couple of power-related projects and an oil terminal. The crowd jeered the JMM leader as soon as he rose to address the gathering and started chants of “Modi, Modi“. The PM himself raised his hands to urge the people to calm down. Local BJP leaders tried to pacify them, but were ignored. “What happened today was the rape of the federal structure of the country ,“ Soren said. “But this appears to have become a trend at Modi's programmes in non-BJP ruled states now.“
Prior to this, Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan and Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda were heckled by BJP supporters when they shared dais with Modi at official functions. On Thursday , Chavan stayed away from a function at Nagpur which he was scheduled to attend along with the PM. Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren became the third non-BJP chief minister to be heckled by BJP supporters when he shared the dais with PM Narendra Modi on Thursday.
Fearing the possibility of a repeat of what had happened to Hooda and Chavan, Soren had on Wednesday made an informal request to the PMO, urging it to ensure that such incidents didn’t recur in Ranchi.
JMM central general secretary Supriyo Bhattacharya said: “This is unacceptable and the party will henceforth greet all central ministers with black flags and boycott their functions.” The opposition parties, too, condemned the action of the BJP workers.
“The BJP has publicly humiliated the chief ministers of Jharkhand and other pollbound states — Haryana and Maharashtra — in a conspiracy to create a poor image of the chief ministers,” JPCC chief Sukhdeo Bhagat said.
The BJP reminded the Congress chief ministers not to breach constitutional propriety and desist from playing politics as it termed the decision of Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan and others to boycott PM Narendra Modi's functions as `unfortunate'. Taking potshots at the opposition party , BJP said its CMs should not suffer from `complex' due to the Modi's `popularity' among the masses. The BJP said the PM cannot stop people from speaking out their mind publicly and asked the Congress not to play politics on the issue. “They (CMs in poll-bound states) should take care not to breach constitutional propriety,“ BJP spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain said.
BJP vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, “This kind of negative politics will not help the Congress.“
Prior to this, Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan and Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda were heckled by BJP supporters when they shared dais with Modi at official functions. On Thursday , Chavan stayed away from a function at Nagpur which he was scheduled to attend along with the PM. Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren became the third non-BJP chief minister to be heckled by BJP supporters when he shared the dais with PM Narendra Modi on Thursday.
Fearing the possibility of a repeat of what had happened to Hooda and Chavan, Soren had on Wednesday made an informal request to the PMO, urging it to ensure that such incidents didn’t recur in Ranchi.
JMM central general secretary Supriyo Bhattacharya said: “This is unacceptable and the party will henceforth greet all central ministers with black flags and boycott their functions.” The opposition parties, too, condemned the action of the BJP workers.
“The BJP has publicly humiliated the chief ministers of Jharkhand and other pollbound states — Haryana and Maharashtra — in a conspiracy to create a poor image of the chief ministers,” JPCC chief Sukhdeo Bhagat said.
The BJP reminded the Congress chief ministers not to breach constitutional propriety and desist from playing politics as it termed the decision of Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan and others to boycott PM Narendra Modi's functions as `unfortunate'. Taking potshots at the opposition party , BJP said its CMs should not suffer from `complex' due to the Modi's `popularity' among the masses. The BJP said the PM cannot stop people from speaking out their mind publicly and asked the Congress not to play politics on the issue. “They (CMs in poll-bound states) should take care not to breach constitutional propriety,“ BJP spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain said.
BJP vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, “This kind of negative politics will not help the Congress.“
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