Hemant Soren to return as Jharkhand Chief Minister, Champai Soren to quit: Sources

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Himalaya Harbinger, Rudrapur Bureau

Hemant Soren, released from prison after being arrested in an alleged land scam case, is likely to return as Jharkhand’s Chief Minister. The change of guard was decided after the INDIA alliance MLAs and leaders reached consensus over the replacement of the Chief Minister, sources told India Today.

 

Hemant Soren was in the Birsa Munda Central Jail for a period of five months before getting bail from the Jharkhand High Court in connection with a money laundering case on June 28.

Champai Soren is expected to tender his resignation as Chief Minister of Jharkhand by late evening at around 8 p.m., the sources said.

The INDIA bloc’s meeting was held at the Chief Minister’s residence in Ranchi.

 

This is the third time that Hemant Soren will be sworn in as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand. He will be the 13th chief minister of Jharkhand, which was carved out of Bihar in 2000.

 

Talks of giving Champai Soren a new responsibility as the chairman of the UPA coordination committee and working president of JMM are also going on.

 

Congress’s Jharkhand in-charge Ghulam Ahmad Mir and its state president Rajesh Thakur also attended the INDIA bloc’s meeting, besides Hemant Soren’s brother Basant and wife Kalpana.

Meanwhile, while setting the narrative for the BJP’s offensive, MP Nishikant Dubey stated in a post on X that the “Champai Soren era is over in Jharkhand.”

Taking a potshot at JMM, he stated, “In the family-oriented party, people outside the family have no political future. I wish the chief minister drew inspiration from Bhagwan Birsa Munda and stood up against the corrupt Hemant Soren ji.”

The 67-year-old Champai Soren, a veteran JMM leader, has been with party founder and Hemant Soren’s father, Shibu Soren, for decades now.

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