Soren allocates portfolios, heads home and mines (Lead)
January 12th, 2010 - 10:57 pm ICT by IANS ( 1 comment )Ranchi, Jan 12 (IANS) Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren kept key portfolios like home and mines with himself as he Tuesday allocated portfolios to the ministers - three days after he expanded his cabinet.
Soren has kept a charge of 14 departments with himself. Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Raghubar Das has been allocated six departments including finance, urban development and energy, while the other Deputy Chief Minister Sudesh Mahto (All Jharkhand Students Union) has been allocated four departments including road construction, forests and environment.
The allocation of portfolios was delayed as alliance partners were scrambling for key ministries.
Though Soren, who was sworn-in on Dec 30 and won the trust vote Jan 7, denied that there is any problem, sources in the JMM said the BJP and the AJSU were trying to get the rural development, energy, home, health and other major ministries for themselves.
A party insider said the AJSU was particularly angling for home. Soren had agreed to some of their demands but was against giving home to Mahto.
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January 24th, 2010 at 8:17 am
More than any body, Guru Jee knows that Jharkhand is full of possibilities and, after the bifurcation: it had the prospect to excel as a developed State. He also knows that it requires the ingenuity of the leadership to do things right but the ineptness and corruption of the past became impediment and the people of Jharkhand suffered.
Though the mandate Guru Jee received was not decisive, he is smart enough to muster the majority. We only wish if he could use his political capital to earn the name of an efficient Chief Minister. He is a negotiator and a seasoned politician. But, the question is can he follow the principles he espoused during his campaign for a better Jharkhand? May we ask him to learn the painful lessons from the mistakes of the past so that he could govern effectively without any semblance to his predecessor who was a disgrace as the Cheif Minister?
Guru Jee knows that he has been given the opportunity to use his common sense in governing the people and making the decisions. Though the intricacies of governing require making deals with friends and foes alike, people will admire him if he were transparent. The case in point is his acquiescence to fight the Maoists. He should be credited for his courage and lauded for taking the step to protect the society. No body can challenge him for such a monumental decision because it is the right decision for the leader of a civil society. However, if Guru Jee is interested in curbing the influence of the Maoists, he will have to initiate reforms. Elimination of poverty, job creation, industrialization and spread of education are some of the steps necessary not only to constrict the influence of the Maoists but to further the political fortunes of the Guru Jee. A good starting point would be aggressive steps to fight fraud and corruption to create the ambiance of social justice.
Let us hope that the man people call Guru Jee stays above board and avoids the traps of political shenanigans.