The party, which prided itself as the creator of Jharkhand, now lies estranged from the very tribal community it had set out to champion

BJP fought the Jharkhand election in its trade-mark aggressive style by raising issues such as 'corruption' and 'Bangladeshi infiltration', but it seems they did not go well among voters, prompting the INDIA bloc to retain power in the state.

Himanta Biswa Sarma stressed the urgent need for the Hemant Soren-led Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) to address the issue of “infiltration”.

A day after the election result did not turn out as expected for BJP, its Jharkhand poll co-in-charge Himanta Biswa Sarma said that he had .

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma discusses Jharkhand election defeat, emphasizes need to address infiltration issue in the state.

The only ST seat that saffron party could win was thanks to the turncoat former CM Champai Soren, who had quit JMM to join the BJP and won his Saraikella seat on a BJP ticket

At the peak of his popularity following a massive mandate in Pulwama-powered 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Narendra Modi twisted the knife deeper months later in Jharkhand when he remarked that he could identify rioters by their clothes.