Arjun Munda (born January 5, 1968) is the Chief Minister of Jharkhand, a state of India. He first took that position on March 18, 2003 and held it until his resignation on March 2, 2005 which occurred after inconclusive state elections and the intervention of the state's governor, Syed Sibtey Razi. Ten days later, on March 12, 2005, however, Munda was reappointed chief minister, and won a vote of confidence in the state assembly on March 15, 2005, by a vote of 40 to 37. Munda is a member of the BJP.
This man's rise to fame has been meteoric. He has proved himself to be an able leader and being young has a very good feet on the ground approach. His election to the post of CM of the state was accidental and more a case of deductive logic than selective. Since all the eminent elected members of the state at that point in time in March 2003 had a criminal record behind them. This man became the only remaining alternative for a BJP government that did not have much of a choice amongst the state elected members.
Hence by a good bit of luck the man from a place called Kharaswan, close to Jamshedpur which in past has been more known as a princely state being ruled over the centuries by the Singh Deo dynasty of Singhbhum made his way into the annals of history as the tribal leader of the state.
Being close to the roots, there was a good amount of aspiration that had been built into the minds of the newly created state from their newly elected CM. But nothing much has come their way over the last couple of years. The CM is now known only for his big promises which have largely been unfulfilled and some few odd foreign trips and couple more advertisements he released in the newspapers across the country inviting people to invest in the state.
Moreover mass corruption has crept in and BJP is now wondering whether it was a good idea to replace Babulal Marandi - who incidentally today has a much larger mass appeal than Arjun Munda. Was a that good an idea at all?
Arjun Munda now seems to be at the end of his tenure which seems to be marked with confusion, avoidance and failed promises. It is only a matter of time when he goes into oblivion. Without a trace. But then a word of caution here - politics is a strange animal.
The new age might see young dynamic leaders emerging who have been hitherto unknown. The current crop of leaders needs to be uprooted from the core and thrown away to make this state a global superpower that it can be
Arjun Munda (born January 5, 1968) is the Chief Minister of Jharkhand, a state of India. He first took that position on March 18, 2003 and held it until his resignation on March 2, 2005 which occurred after inconclusive state elections and the intervention of the state's governor, Syed Sibtey Razi. Ten days later, on March 12, 2005, however, Munda was reappointed chief minister, and won a vote of confidence in the state assembly on March 15, 2005, by a vote of 40 to 37. Munda is a member of the BJP.