"How can the UPA at the Centre hold talks in the absence of JMM president Shibu Soren? Let him recover. We wish him speedy recovery," PCC president Pradeep Balmachu told PTI the on phone. "It might take a day or two," Balmachu said when asked how long it would take to reach a consensus on deciding the next UPA chief ministerial candidate. He said that options are also open for holding talks in Ranchi with any central UPA leader coming down "if such a need arises".
The state UPA meeting on Monday night left it to the central UPA leadership to find a consensual successor to Soren after the JMM selected its legislature party leader Champai Soren, while some UPA allies opposed the choice. Soren was admitted to a private hospitaon Tuesday after he complained of heaviness in the chest.
He had a busy schedule after he was defeated in Tamar assembly by-poll on January 8 before he quit from the post of chief minister yesterday. He was present during the UPA meeting last night, when it was decided to seek the central leadership's intervention to break the ice after a couple of names figured for the chief minister's post.
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