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    JMM keeps suspense over stand on N-deal

    New Delhi (PTI): The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), having five members in the Lok Sabha, has kept the cards close to its chest on how it would go about in case of a trust vote.

    "We have not taken any decision," party's General Secretary Hemlal Murmu said on being asked about JMM's stand on the issue of Indo-US nuclear deal.

    Murmu, who is a member of the Lok Sabha, said though the JMM is part of the UPA, the party will take a stand on a confidence vote after a meeting of party leaders soon.

    Party leaders said that since JMM supremo Sibu Soren is busy with a marriage in his family, it will take a few more days to firm up a decision.

    JMM nurtures a grudge against the UPA as it did not re-induct Soren in the Union Cabinet after he came out clean in a court case.

    Soren first became a Union Cabinet Minister in May 2004 but had to resign two months later after a court issued a non-bailable warrant against him in a 20-year-old murder case.

    He was re-inducted into the Union Cabinet as Coal Minister in November the same year but again had to resign two years later after a Delhi court convicted him in the 1994 case of murder of his private secretary Sashinath Jha.

    However, after the Delhi High Court acquitted him in the case in August 2007, Soren was not third-time lucky as he did not find a berth in the government when the Union Council of Ministers was last expanded.

    JMM's difference with the Congress is not new as the party had earlier differed with Congress over its plans to withdraw outside support to Chief Minister Madhu Koda-led government in Jharkhand on the ground that he was not delivering results.


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