Patna, Dec. 23 -- The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-Congress-RJD alliance seems to have got good support of the tribal voters in the state as the poll results suggest that the BJP's experiment with a non-tribal chief minister has fallen flat.
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha has influence over 26 per cent of tribal votes and minorities of the state.
In 2014, the BJP chose Raghubar Das as a non-tribal chief minister. It was for the first time in the history of the state that a non-tribal was chosen for the top job. It's a pattern the BJP established in Maharashtra and Haryana after winning state elections in 2014. The party picked Devendra Fadnavis, a Brahmin, in Maharashtra, ignoring the dominant Marathas, and a non-Jat Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana....