Hemant Soren Set To Take Oath As Jharkhand’s 14th CM Today: 10 Points

JMM chief Hemant Soren, who led the INDIA alliance to a decisive victory in the recently concluded elections in Jharkhand, will take oath as the 14th Chief Minister of the state today. This will be the fourth time the 49-year-old will be taking oath.

Here are 10 updates on this big story:

1. Soren will be administered the oath of office and secrecy by Jharkhand Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar at Morabadi Ground in Ranchi. He will take oath at 4 pm.
2. Many top leaders of the INDIA bloc have been invited for the event. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, party leader Rahul Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, and Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu are likely to attend the event, a JMM leader said.
3. As per the informed sources, Soren would take oath alone today. The expansion of the Cabinet would take place later.
4. The JMM is expected to keep six ministerial berths in addition to the Chief Minister's post. The Congress is expected to get four berths and Tejashwi Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal will get one.
5. A day before taking oath, Soren, along with his wife Kalpana, visited his ancestral Nemra village in Ramgarh district to pay tribute to his grandfather Sobaran Soren on his 67th death anniversary, observed as 'Sahid Diwas'.
6. "I visit this place every year to pay homage to my grandfather Sobaran Soren," he told reporters on Wednesday.
7. Soren also invited his villagers to attend the oath-taking ceremony of his government. "From tomorrow onwards, a new inning of Abua Sarkar (our government) will start. The oath-taking ceremony is scheduled on Thursday. I invite you all to attend the ceremony. You all have worked very hard to bring the Abua Sarkar again in power," Soren told villagers.
8. Hemant's grandfather Sobaran was murdered by moneylenders when JMM chief Shibu Soren was 15 years old, according to senior JMM leaders.
9. Nemra, located amidst dense forests and hills near the Bengal border in Ramgarh district's Gola block, is also the birthplace of Shibu Soren.
10. Hemant Soren's JMM-led alliance on Saturday stormed to power in Jharkhand for a second consecutive term, winning 56 seats in the 81-member assembly, despite an all-out blitz by the NDA, which managed only 24 seats.