Speaker urged to decide on JVM MLAs before cabinet expansion

Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) today asked Assembly Speaker Dinesh Oraon to take a decision before the expansion of Raghubar Das cabinet on the party's demand to disqualify six MLAs who joined the BJP despite winning Assembly polls on JVM symbol.
"We met the Speaker and sought a decision on our demand before the expansion (of the BJP-led ministry)," JVM president and former chief minister Babulal Marandi told reporters.
The JVM also submitted a copy of the tenth schedule in support of its demand for disqualification of the MLAs, Marandi said, claiming it violated the Constitution.
Yesterday JVM legislature party leader Pradip Yadav said the party would wait for the Speaker's decision for two days before moving the High Court against the six MLAs -- Naveen Jaiswal, Amar Kumar Bauri, Ganesh Ganju, Alok Kumar Chourasia, Ranjit Singh and Janki Yadav.

The six were among the eight JVM candidates who won the Assembly elections last year.