INDIA’S REGIONAL LEADER EXPRESSES CONFIDENCE THAT NEW GOVERNMENT IN EASTERN STATE WOULD COMPLETE ITS TERM. (TAPE NO: 09/20309 DV)

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India’s regional leader expresses confidence on new provincial government.

Shibu Soren, chief minister-elect of India’s regional Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, expresses confidence that a new government would complete its term in eastern Jharkhand state.

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NEW DELHI, INDIA (DECEMBER 28, 2009) (ANI-ACCESS ALL)

1. SHIBU SOREN, CHIEF OF INDIA’S REGIONAL JHARKHAND MUKTI MORCHA (JMM), SENIOR LEADER OF INDIA’S MAIN OPPOSITION HINDU NATIONALIST BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY YASHWANT SINHA, SHARAD YADAV, CHIEF OF REGIONAL JANATA DAL (UNITED), AND CHIEF OF THE ALL JHARKHAND STUDENTS UNION SUDESH MAHATO, ARRIVING FOR A NEWS CONFERENCE

2. SOREN LOOKS AS YADAV ADDRESSES

3. (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) SHIBU SOREN, CHIEF OF INDIA’S REGIONAL JHARKHAND MUKTI MORCHA, SAYING: “We are 45 or 46 in strength, though we require 41 for the majority. So, we are forming a very strong government, which would complete its tenure.”

4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) YASHWANT SINHA, SENIOR LEADER OF INDIA’S MAIN OPPOSITION HINDU NATIONALIST BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY, SAYING:”After the results, after 23rd of December, no better government could be formed in Jharkhand and no better government can be formed even in the future in Jharkhand, apart from …one that we have put together.”

5. SOREN, YADAV AND OTHERS PREPARE TO LEAVE

6. SOREN, YADAV AND OTHERS, LEAVING

STORY: Shibu Soren, chief minster-elect of India’s regional Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on Monday (December 28) expressed confidence that a new government under his stewardship would complete its tenure in eastern Jharkhand state.

Soren, who staked claim last week, is expected to be sworn in as the seventh chief of Jharkhand on Wednesday (December 30).

The election results had thrown up a hung assembly, with no single party being in a position to form the government on its own.

Soren’s JMM, which has 18 legislators in the 81-seat state assembly, is forming the government with the support of 20 members of main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its coalition, five of regional All Jharkhand Students Union and few independents.

Federal ruling Congress and its alliance had won 25 seats while five members of the regional Rashtriya Janata Dal were elected.

“We are 45 or 46 in strength, though we require 41 for the majority. So, we are forming a very strong government, which would complete its tenure,” Soren told a news conference in national capital New Delhi.

BJP leaders said there was no better alternative to form the government in the state.

“After the results, after 23rd of December, no better government could be formed in Jharkhand and no better government can be formed even in the future in Jharkhand, apart from …one that we have put together,” Yashwant Sinha, senior BJP leader said.

Jharkhand, the state with a history of politically unstable coalition governments, has been under federal rule since January in the wake of a political deadlock, after the then-chief Shibu Soren lost the by-elections, and was subsequently disqualified.

The state assembly was first placed under suspended animation and later dissolved when elections were announced.