PTI
 
RANCHI, Mar 1: The BJP has given a week's time for the dissolution of the Jharkhand assembly, failing which it would urge the President to do so, senior  BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday.

"We have given a week's time to the Centre after the Minister of State for Home Affairs Shakeel Ahmed told the Rajya Sabha that a Supreme Court judgement came in the way of dissolving the house before Parliament ratified President's Rule in the state," Swaraj said.

She said if the government failed to do so within a week to pave the way for simultaneous assembly and Lok Sabha polls, all BJP MLAs would march to the Rashtrapati Bhavan after Holi to urge the President to dissolve the house.

She recalled the February 12 police lathicharge on partymen, including former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha here during a march to Raj Bhavan to demand dissolution of the house.

"We demand dissolution of the house to stop any new formation in the current house. There should be a fresh mandate," she said.

The assembly is in suspended animation after JMM chief Shibu Soren quit as chief minister after he lost a bypoll from where he was seeking to enter the house.