Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren was hospitalised following complications related to his blood sugar, an official said on Sunday. He was admitted to Tata Main Hospital in Jamshedpur at around 9 pm on Saturday.
A close aide of the former CM said his blood sugar dipped and he felt dizzy following which he was taken to hospital. Tata Main Hospital GM Dr Sudhir Rai said Soren was stable and his condition was improving.
Soren joined BJP
Champai Soren became the chief minister of Jharkhand on February 2, shortly after Hemant Soren resigned as the CM following his arrest by the ED in a money laundering case. Champai quit the post and Hemant took oath as the CM again in July, after he was released on bail.
On August 30, Champai Soren joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and Jharkhand BJP President Babulal Marandi. He resigned from the JMM, claiming that the JMM’s “present style of functioning and policies” forced him to leave the party he served for many years. He also resigned as an MLA of the state assembly and a minister in the Jharkhand Cabinet.
Who is Champai Soren?
Sixty-seven-year-old tribal leader Champai Soren has earned the sobriquet 'Jharkhand's Tiger' for his contribution to the long fight for the creation of a separate state in the 1990s. Jharkhand was created from the southern part of Bihar in 2000. A matriculate from a government school, he started his political career by getting elected as an Independent MLA through a by-election from the Saraikela seat in undivided Bihar in 1991.
Four years later, he contested the assembly polls from the seat on the JMM ticket and defeated the BJP's Panchu Tudu. In the 2000 assembly elections, the first one held in the state, he was defeated from the same constituency by the BJP's Anant Ram Tudu. He regained the seat in 2005 by defeating the BJP candidate by a margin of only 880 votes. Champai Soren won the subsequent elections in 2009, 2014 and 2019.
(With PTI inputs)
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