RANCHI: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) working president Hemant Soren on Friday threatened to disrupt proceedings of the monsoon session of Jharkhand Assembly next week if the Raghubar Das government did not rollback the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Jharkhand Amendment Act) 2017.Soren, who is the leader of opposition in the 81-member strong assembly, also said JMM and other opposition parties was open to discuss about the law in the assembly only after it was annulled. The monsoon session is scheduled between July 16 and July 21.“We are ready for debate but first the government will have to withdraw the Kala Kanoon. The government behaved like a goon and passed it through voice vote without a debate. We will not give in to such arm twisting measures,” Soren said at a joint press meet of opposition parties held at the headquarters of state Congress in Sraddhanand Road.The joint press meet, which was attended by politicians from the Left parties and the Rashtriya Janata Dal , came a day after the parties called a 24-hour Jharkhand bandh against the law. The state government had detained 19,000 bandh supporters and prominent politicians from the opposition as a preventive measure to avert law and order problems. The BJP had termed the bandh a failure. JMM and Congress added that they will not stop their agitations against the law till it was withdrawn.Soren and state Congress president Ajoy Kumar on Friday called the bandh a success and thanked the people for supporting it in a peaceful way. The politicians on Friday announced that they will stage a dharna outside Raj Bhawan on July 16 and seek governor Droupadi Murmu’s intervention in withdrawing the law. “All the parties are preparing for the dharna,” Soren added. The parties claimed nearly 40,000 supporters will participate in the dharna.The former CM’s visit to Congress office was seen by many as a sign of the gradually strengthening ties between the grand old party and JMM. Soren said: “Every meeting of the opposition parties was being held at my office. It was becoming monotonous.”

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