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Ranchi, December 05, 2024: Eight days after taking oath as Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren will today induct about 10 ministers in his cabinet.
Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar will administer the oath to the ministers at the Raj Bhavan, official sources said.
On November 28 last Soren had taken oath as the 14th chief minister of Jharkhand.
This is the fourth stint as Chief Minister for the 49-year-old Soren.
It is expected that the oath ceremony will begin with Stephen Marandi as the Protem Speaker. The senior JMM MLA will oversee the proceedings until a regular Speaker is elected. Following Marandi’s oath, the ministers will take oaths.
The first session of the state assembly has been convened from December 9 to 12.
In the recently held assembly election JMM contested 43 seats and won 34, the highest-ever seats bagged by the party. Congress got 16 seats, RJD 4 and the CPI (ML) secured 2 seats in the INDIA bloc, totalling 56 seats in the 81-member assembly, while the BJP-headed NDA managed 24 seats.
The BJP contested 68 seats and won 21 seats and emerged as the second largest party.
