Former Jharkhand CMs won`t contest Lok Sabha polls

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 21:54

Former Jharkhand chief ministers Arjun Munda and Babulal Marandi will not contest the April-May Lok Sabha elections, it was announced here Wednesday.

Political compulsions throwing up surprises in Jharkhand

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 25, 2013, 20:31

Politics makes strange bedfellows and it does so all the more in Jharkhand where nothing surprises.

`Weak govts allowed terrorists to set up base in Jharkhand`

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 00:36

Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Babulal Marandi on Tuesday said terror outfits were able to set up bases in the state as governments since 2003 were weak.

`Weak govts allowed terrorists to set up base in Jharkhand`

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 12, 2013, 19:55

Former Jharkhand chief minister Babulal Marandi said terror outfits were able to set up bases in the state as governments since 2003 were weak.

JVM MLA rues for being among dissidents

Last Updated: Saturday, July 13, 2013, 22:22

Regretting his move of pulling out of Jharkhand government in March 2003, JVM (Prajatantric) MLA Samresh Singh claimed that had Marandi-led government not fallen on that day the state might not have witnessed such instability.

First passenger train on Koderma-Nawadih-Giridih railway line

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 23:07

The first passenger train on the the newly constructed Koderma-Nawadih-Giridih railway line was on Tuesday flagged off by JVM(P) chief Babulal Marandi.

Marandi to meet President today, demand Assembly dissolution

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 08:54

Jharkhand is under President`s rule from January 18 after the BJP-led government fell on January 8.

Marandi re-elected as president; projected JVM`s CM candidate

Last Updated: Sunday, May 5, 2013, 20:58

Babulal Marandi was on Sunday re-elected as president of the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantric) and the party projected him as its chief ministerial candidate for the next Assembly elections.

BJP and JMM collaborated to loot Jharkhand, alleges Marandi

Last Updated: Sunday, January 20, 2013, 23:50

Nearly two weeks after collapse of Arjun Munda government in Jharkhand, former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi alleged that the BJP-JMM alliance was formed only to "loot" the state`s resources.

Make your positions clear: Marandi asks BJP/JMM

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 26, 2012, 22:35

JVM (Prajatantric) chief asked JMM & BJP to clarify "who is lying" in wake of the former claiming to have struck a power sharing deal with the latter.

Marandi`s agitation enters 10th day

Last Updated: Sunday, November 25, 2012, 22:39

Babulal Marandi`s demonstration entered the 10th day on Sunday in support of Raj Mahal Pahar Bachao Samiti`s demands.

Marandi continues dharna at Pachuwara

Last Updated: Saturday, November 17, 2012, 15:10

Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantric) chief Babulal Marandi is on a dharna demanding a tri-partite agreement with the state government, Panem Coal Mines and the Raj Mahal Pahar Bacchao Samiti.