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<b>BJP, JMM to share power in Jharkhand on rotation</b>

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Press Trust of India Ranchi
Last Updated : Jan 21 2013 | 2:54 AM IST

The BJP and JMM today agreed to share power on a rotational basis of the remaining four-and-a-half year term of Jharkhand Assembly with the saffron party to be the first to take over.

"We have decided that BJP and JMM will share the power for 28 months each with the BJP taking over in the first phase," Chief Minister Shibu Soren and BJP's chief ministerial candidate Arjun Munda told a joint press conference here.

Asked when he would step down as chief minister, Soren replied "very soon" without giving a date.

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