Jamshedpur: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and Congress workers at the ground level have crossed path on the issue of Neel Sarovar of Kadma in Jamshedpur West assembly segment.
JMM has been celebrating the passage of Sarna religion code bill. JMM cadres two days back organised a celebratory event on the vacant land near Kadma Neel Sarovar Chhath Ghat.
JMM workers allegedly put up party flags too at the place and celebrated the development over separate religion code for Sarna religion. After the event, however, they left the party flags on the site.
This has caused resentment at the political level. Neel Sarovar pond and the adjoining land has been looked after by the Congress MLA and the state Health Minister Banna Gupta for a long time. The fact that the workers of JMM, which is a coalition partner, held an event there and then left their flags at the vacant land, has peeved the Congress workers.
Banna Gupta is the president of Neel Sarovar Chhath Ghat Samity. His close aide, Manoj Jha, held a press conference on Friday and attacked JMM directly for the unsavoury act. He charged that JMM workers want to grab the Neeel Sarovar Chhath Ghat land. He said that there is a proposal to build a mandir on the adjoining land. He said that the behaviour of JMM workers is not only unsavoury, but would also sully the image of the Chief Minister Hemant Soen.
Reacting to Manoj Jha’s statement, the central committee member of JMM, Pawan Kumar has ascribed the programme held at Sarovar Ghat land by putting up party’s flag as an act done by mischievous elements.
He said that his party has nothing to do with the event or the act of leaving behind the party’s flag on the land. He said that Neel Sarovar has been looked after by Banna Gupta from a long time and it is being seen as an example of development by the locals.
He said that if someone had to celebrate developments on separate code for Sarna religion, then Shaheed Nirmal Mahato Samadhi Sthal was the most suitable place. He said that the party district president would be apprised with party’s stand on the issue.
It would be interesting to see, what turn the latest spat between the local units of the two parties takes. The bigwigs of both the parties have desisted from making any statement yet.
