J'Khand governor's role questioned

March 03, 2005

Launching a scathing attack on the Jharkhand Governor Syed Sibte Razi's 'delaying tactics to throttle democracy', the NDA legislators alleged on Tuesday night that he was following the Centre's dictats on the formation of new government in the state.

"If the guardian of the Constitution is not protecting it, then who will save it?" JD(U) legislature party leader Inder Singh Namdhari asked while delivering a speech during the indefinite dharna by the NDA MLAs in protest against the Governor's 'delaying tactics' even after the NDA submitted to him a list of 41 MLAs, including five independents this afternoon.

Amidst anti-Congress slogans, Namdhari said "Justice delayed is justice denied."

He said in his long political career, he had seen a number of governors, but "none was like the present governor who is not inviting the largest pre-poll alliance combine to form government".

The legislators were addressing the dharna in turns with senior NDA leaders, including former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi and BJP's Rajnath Singh, sitting under a shamiana in front of the main gate of the Raj Bhavan.