Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren said on Saturday that there is no political unrest in the state and that everything is normal.
"As far as the question of political instability in Jharkhand is concerned, I feel that there is no such instability. Everything is normal...This is an artificial tornado," Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, news agency ANI reported.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) had previously informed Jharkhand Governor Ramesh Bais that the chief minister should be disqualified as an MLA for violating electoral norms.
"You're mentioning EC & Governor (disqualification issue). In this context, I'd like to say that this is the first such incident in India wherein CM goes to the doors of EC & Governor and asks with folded hands what his punishment should be and is asking for it,"Jharkhand CM said.
Hemant Soren stated this environment was not created by him. It was created by his competitors.
"Have you ever seen a perpetrator demand punishment? If If I am a culprit, sentence me to a punishment," Jharkhand CM said.
The sign that a political crisis in a state is reaching a critical stage is when parties start moving their legislators to resorts. In the month September, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and the Indian National Congress (INC) flew their MLAs to Raipur. The two parties constitute the governing alliance in Jharkhand, Times Of India reported.
Jharkhand has a turbulent political history. In its 22-year history, it has had 11 chief ministers. Raghubar Das of the BJP is the only CM to have served an entire five-year term, from 2014 to 2019.
Hemant Soren is the state's second longest-serving chief minister. And the uncertainty surrounding his continuation in office is part of the state's latest political crisis. This uncertainty about Soren began when Babu Lal Marandi, the state's first chief minister and a current member of the legislative assembly, filed a complaint with governor Ramesh Bais.
(With Inputs From Agencies)