RANCHI: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha formally announced on Friday that it will support the Aam Aadmi Party in opposing the Central government's ordinance on control of administrative services in Delhi after a meeting between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren in Ranchi.

Announcing this at a press conference in Ranchi, Delhi CM Kejriwal said the ordinance must be defeated collectively in Parliament where it is expected to come up for voting as a law in the forthcoming session. 

Soren, who accompanied him at the press meet after their meeting where Punjab CM Bhagwant Singh Mann was also present, said, "The Centre's attack on democracy is a matter of serious concern." Kejriwal and Mann arrived here on a special flight from Chennai on Thursday night accompanied by AAP MPs Raghav Chadha and Sanjay Singh besides Aam Aadmi Party  MLA Atishi.

 "JMM will support AAP in opposing the Central ordinance on control of administrative services in Delhi. "The Centre is creating a crisis for the Aam Aadmi Party  and is preventing a duly elected government from functioning independently," the Delhi CM said. 

"In spite of the Supreme Court verdict in favour of the Aam Aadmi Party government (the Supreme Court had ruled that the control over transfer and posting of top bureaucrats in Delhi would vest with the state government), the Centre brought the ordinance," Kejriwal said.

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