Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren has sought a four-week extension to the deadline set by the Election Commission to reply to its notice that he was liable to be disqualified from the Assembly because of a stone quarrying lease in his name last year.
Sources in Jharkhand chief minister’s secretariat confirmed that the Election Commission has given time till May 20 to Soren to reply.
The commission had told Soren to respond by May 10.
“The chief minister has written to the EC seeking more time to file the reply as he needs more time to study it in detail,” JMM central committee member and Giridih MLA Sudivya Kumar confirmed on Tuesday evening.
