JMM executive president Hemant Soren to take oath as Jharkhand CM on November 28

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha executive president Hemant Soren on Sunday met Governor Santosh Gangwar and staked claim to form the next government.

He was accompanied by Congress in-charge for Jharkhand GA Mir and other INDIA bloc partners and their representatives, including the RJD and the CPIML.

Soren resigned as the Chief Minister before staking claim to form the government. He will officiate as the Acting Chief Minister till oath is administered to him on November 28.

Earlier, leaders and MLAs of the alliance held a meeting at Hemant Soren’s residence here and unanimously elected him as the coalition’s leader.

Congress’s Jharkhand in-charge and party general secretary Ghulam Ahmad Mir and senior party leader Rajesh Thakur also attended the meeting, besides legislators of the coalition parties.

On Saturday, he led the ruling coalition to a comfortable majority in the 81-member Jharkhand Assembly becoming the first incumbent to return to power.

Soren successfully beat anti-incumbency and BJP’s aggressive narratives built around his alleged corruption and encouragement to illegal immigration and settlement in tribal lands of the state.

Soren’s party won 34 seats, Congress 16, RJD 6 and CPIML 2.

Simple majority in the state Assembly is 41.

Hemant’s wife Kalpana also won her debut battle from Gandey.