{"id":485838,"date":"2022-04-22T09:46:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T04:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=485838"},"modified":"2022-04-22T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T05:17:00","slug":"ec-seeks-from-jharkhand-govt-documents-on-mining-lease-granted-to-cm-soren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ec-seeks-from-jharkhand-govt-documents-on-mining-lease-granted-to-cm-soren\/","title":{"rendered":"EC seeks from Jharkhand govt documents on mining lease granted to CM Soren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission of India (ECI) has written to Jharkhand government, seeking documents pertaining to a mining lease granted to Chief Minister Hemant Soren, who also holds the mining portfolio, to \u201cformulate its opinion\u201d under Article 192 of the Constitution, which deals with disqualification of members of Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>In its April 8 letter to Jharkhand Chief Secretary Sukhdev Singh, the ECI asked for copy of the application, lease deed, minor mineral concession rules, lease agreement and all annexures to the documents.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, Singh refused to comment on the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The letter comes two months days after senior BJP leader and former chief minister Raghubar Das released at a press conference documents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission of India (ECI) has written to Jharkhand government, seeking documents pertaining to a mining lease granted to Chief Minister Hemant Soren, who also holds the mining portfolio, to \u201cformulate its opinion\u201d under Article 192 of the Constitution, which deals with disqualification of members of Assembly. In its April 8 letter to Jharkhand Chief Secretary Sukhdev Singh, the ECI asked for copy of the application, lease deed, minor mineral concession rules, lease agreement and all annexures to the documents. When contacted, Singh refused to comment on the matter. The letter comes two months days after senior BJP leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}