Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader Hemant Soren took oath as the 14th chief minister of Jharkhand at the Morabadi Ground on Thursday.
#WATCH | JMM executive president Hemant Soren takes oath as the 14th Chief Minister of Jharkhand, in Ranchi.
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Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar administered the oath of office and secrecy to Soren at 4 pm.
Soren, who retained the Barhait assembly seat with a margin of 39,791 votes in the recently held elections, will take charge of the CM office for the fourth time.
Several key leaders of the INDIA bloc, including Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, are expected to be in attendance at Soren’s swearing-in ceremony.
Hours before taking oath, Soren took to X, asserting that unity is the biggest weapon of people of the state, who can “neither be divided nor silenced”.
