"Our national general secretaries Ananth Kumar and Dharmendra Pradhan held discussions with chief minister, state unit president Dineshanand Goswami and party's organisational secretary Harendra Pratap Singh," a senior party leader said.
Party candidate S S Ahluwalia was present during the meeting, he said.
On April 25, the JMM wrote a letter to BJP's national president Nitin Gadkari appealing to him to withdraw Ahluwalia from the race and vote for JMM nominee Sanjeev Kumar.
The Congress has fielded Pradeep Kumar Balmachu and is wooing pre-poll ally Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantric) to reverse its decision to abstain from voting.
The Congress has 13 MLAs while the JVM's has eleven in the 82-member Jharkhand assembly. The house has one nominated member and another seat is vacant. PTI PVR NIK VMN