• By JE News Desk
  • Thu, 05 Dec 2024 03:05 PM (IST)
  • Source:PTI
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Eleven MLAs, including six from the JMM, were sworn in as ministers in the Hemant Soren government in Jharkhand on Thursday. Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar administered the oath to the ministers at Ashok Udyan in the Raj Bhavan.

The six JMM legislators who took the oath as ministers are Sudivya Kumar, Deepak Birua, Ramdas Soren, Chamra Linda, Yogendra Prasad, and Hafizul Hasan. Congress MLAs Deepika Pandey Singh, Shilpi Neha Tirkey, Irfan Ansari, and Radhakrishna Kishore were sworn in as ministers, while RJD's Sanjay Prasad Yadav also secured a berth.

JMM leader Hemant Soren took oath as chief minister on November 28. Six new faces have been inducted into the Hemant Soren government, while Deepika Pandey Singh, Irfan Ansari, Deepak Birua, and Ramdas Soren have been appointed to ministerial positions for the second time. Hafizul Hasan has been appointed for the third time.

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The swearing-in ceremony began with Stephen Marandi taking the oath as the pro-tem speaker of the assembly. Marandi, a senior JMM MLA, was appointed as pro-tem speaker after Hemant Soren took oath as chief minister last week.

The JMM-led alliance, which stormed to power in Jharkhand last month, secured 56 seats in the 81-member assembly, while the BJP-led NDA managed 24 seats. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which emerged as a surprise in the Jharkhand assembly elections by winning four of the six seats it contested, received one ministerial berth.

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In 2019, the RJD had won only the Chatra seat, with Satyanand Bhokta emerging victorious. The JMM secured a total of seven berths, including that of CM Soren, in the 12-member cabinet. The JMM contested 43 seats and won 34, the highest number of constituencies ever won by the party in assembly polls.

Congress secured four ministerial berths after winning 16 seats in the assembly elections. Meanwhile, CPI(ML) Liberation, which secured two seats as an ally of the INDIA bloc, previously announced that it would not be part of the cabinet.

The BJP contested 68 seats, won 21, and emerged as the second-largest party in the assembly. After Soren took the oath last Saturday, it was decided that an assembly session would be held from December 9 to 12.

 

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