With the arrest of three Congress MLAs with money and the BJP’s alleged Operation Lotus being exposed, the problems of the Jharkhand government will not be reduced. On the contrary, the difficulty may increase. The reason for this is that now the game has come out in the open. It is starting to appear that there is a split in the Congress party in the government and its MLAs are ready to break up. So far only three MLAs have been caught but there is news that more than a dozen MLAs including two or three ministers are in contact with some BJP leader or work as ‘non-state actors’ for BJP. Huh.
The biggest reason for the increasing difficulty of the Jharkhand government is that the three MLAs who have been caught by the West Bengal police were trump cards to topple the government. These three MLAs were not breaking in any condition. Informed sources had put the condition that these three MLAs would not join the BJP after breaking away from the Congress, but would remain as a separate faction. Of these, Kolebira MLA Naman Bixel Kongadi refused to agree to quit the Congress in front of a senior BJP leader. It is even being told that the required number of 12 MLAs to break the Congress was not being met due to two of these MLAs.
Informed sources say that the Congress was ready to break eight-nine MLAs, but according to the number of Congress MLAs, two-thirds i.e. 12 MLAs are needed to break the party. It is being said that the four MLAs were doing back and forth and not coming together openly. Three out of those four MLAs are in the custody of Bengal Police. According to sources, apart from Naman Bixel Kongadi, Irfan Ansari and Rajesh Kachhap, Bharat Bhushan Bara was the fourth MLA, who was not agreeing. Now that the story of the three MLAs has been revealed, then soon this operation can reach its conclusion.
Not only this, it is also being said that out of the four Congress leaders who were being said that they are ministers and therefore they will not break, three people are also reported to be in contact with the BJP. It is being told that the senior most leader of the party, former state president and state government minister Rameshwar Oraon has also spoken to the BJP leaders and has discussed the political future of his son. Then it seems that now there will be no problem in completing the number. The Congress has made it easier for them to go with the BJP by suspending three MLAs considered to be trump cards.
