Soren distributes portfolios to ministers, keeps Home

Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren on Friday distributed portfolios among the new ministers, keeping Home (including prison), Cabinet Secretariat and several other departments to himself, according to a government communique.

Congress MLA Radha Krishna Kishore got finance while JMM’s Chamra Linda was allotted the department of Schedule Tribes, Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes and Minorities.

Sanjay Prasad Yadav of the RJD was given the department of labour, employment and training, while Irfan Ansari of the Congress got health, medical education and family welfare department.

The CM himself kept the departments of personnel, administrative reforms and official language, road construction, building construction, and those yet to be distributed to anyone.

A total of 11 MLAs took oath as ministers on Thursday. Soren himself was sworn in as the CM on November 28.