JMM still part of UPA: Digvijay Singh

INDORE: Amid uncertainty over the formation of a new government in Jharkhand after the fractured electoral mandate, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh has said the Shibu Soren-led JMM, which emerged as the single largest party in assembly polls, is still part of the UPA.

"Soren was earlier also part of the Congress-led UPA... and he still continues to be in it," he told reporters here late last night.

On Congress' role in the formation of the next government in Jharkhand, Singh said the decision in this regard lays with party president Sonia Gandhi and other senior leaders.

When asked about BJP's performance in the assembly polls, the senior Congress leader said, "BJP's dream of forming a government in Jharkhand has been foiled and the number of seats that it got this time has come down from the last occasion, which points to clear defeat."

The BJP-JD(U) alliance got 20 seats in the 81-member Jharkhand Assembly while the Congress-JVM(P) alliance with 25 seats (Cong-14 and JVM(P)-11) has emerged as the single largest alliance.

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha with 18 seats in its kitty, emerged as the single largest party after the elections threw up a hung House.