Jharkhand: Senior JMM leader Raja Ram Marandi joins BJP in Barhait

Ranchi, Nov 11 (UNI) Senior Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Raja Ram Marandi joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) along with hundreds of supporters at a programme in Jhabri under the Barhait Assembly constituency of Sahibganj district on Wednesday. Leader of Opposition and former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi welcomed the new entrants into the party at the joining ceremony. Barhait is the Assembly constituency represented by Chief Minister Hemant Soren. Babulal Marandi said the joining reflected growing public dissatisfaction with the Hemant Soren government and claimed that the JMM's organisational position in the Chief Minister's constituency was weakening. He alleged…