Jitan Ram Manjhi’s HAM(S) meeting in Patna postponed to June 19
The Hindu
The crucial executive committee meeting of Jitan Ram Manjhi-led Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM-Secular) that was supposed to take place in Patna on June 18 has been postponed.
The crucial executive committee meeting of Jitan Ram Manjhi-led Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM-Secular) that was supposed to take place in Patna on June 18 has been postponed.
Now the meeting will be held on June 19.
According to party insiders, the meeting was postponed at the request of some party MLAs as they were unable to reach Patna on Sunday. The HAM(S) has a total of four MLAs and one MLC.
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"This will be the first meeting of the executive committee of the party after snapping ties with the Grand Alliance government in Bihar. The party in its executive committee meeting, which will be chaired by the party's national president and former Bihar Minister Santosh Kumar Suman, will decide the future course of action", said a senior party leader.
Mr. Suman, who is the son of former Bihar CM and HAM(S) founder Jitan Ram Manjhi, resigned from Nitish Kumar's Cabinet on June 13 saying, "I quit the Minister's post to protect the party after Nitish Kumar's JD(U) gave a proposal to merge the HAM(S) with the JD(U)".
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