BJP paid our MLAs Rs 11 crore to defect, claims Babulal Marandi

  • | Friday | 6th July, 2018

We will go the court and file a defamation case,” Seth said.Calling the letter fake, BJP spokesperson Pratul Shahdeo said the fake letter was in circulation for over a year. “Why will Rai write a letter in his letter pad which describes him as the national vice president of BJP Kisan Morcha and sign the letter as state president? “Babulal Marandi should issue an unconditional apology for endorsing a lie and trying to malign the party’s image,” he added. When contacted, Seth called the letter fake. When contacted, Rai said: “Let the news get published today.

RANCHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lured six MLAs of Jharkhand Vikas Morcha – Prajatantrik (JVM-P) to its fold by paying them at least Rs 11 crore after the state assembly elections of 2014, JVM-P chief Babulal Marandi alleged on Friday.Marandi met governor Droupadi Murmu at Raj Bhawan in the evening and urged her to initiate a CBI enquiry in this regard.Marandi, a former chief minister who left the BJP in 2003, alleged that BJP’s previous Jharkhand president Ravindra Rai had informed his national president Amit Shah in a letter (dated January 19, 2015) that Rs 11 crore was paid in total JVM-P’s Simaria MLA Ganesh Ganjhu, Sarath MLA Randhir Kumar Singh , Hatia MLA Naveen Jaiswal, Chandankyari MLA Amar Kumar Bauri, Daltonganj MLA Alok Kumar Chaurasia and Barkatta legislator Janki Prasad Yadav.Producing a letter which he claimed was a photocopy of the original written and undersigned by Rai, Marandi claimed the BJP poached the MLAs by tempting them of money and posts.The letter, a copy of which is with the TOI, claimed that the money was paid to JVM-P MLAs under instructions of BJP’s then national state-in-charge Trivendra Singh Rawat by Chatra MP Sunil Singh, Rajya Sabha MP Mahesh Poddar, state urban development minister CP Singh, Bokaro MLA Biranchi Narayan, Sahebganj MLA Anant Ojha and CM Raghubar Das.“The rest of the money will be paid to the MLAs by CM Raghubar Das within 36 months since they become BJP members,” Rai wrote. When contacted, Rai said: “Let the news get published today. I will speak on it tomorrow.”Sanjay Seth, the chairman of Jharkhand State Khadi and Village Industries Board, has been named in the letter as one of the facilitators in the ‘deal’ along with five other BJP office bearers. When contacted, Seth called the letter fake. “Why will Rai write a letter in his letter pad which describes him as the national vice president of BJP Kisan Morcha and sign the letter as state president? It is fake. We will go the court and file a defamation case,” Seth said.Calling the letter fake, BJP spokesperson Pratul Shahdeo said the fake letter was in circulation for over a year. “Babulal Marandi should issue an unconditional apology for endorsing a lie and trying to malign the party’s image,” he added.

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