Jharkhand cabinet expansion: The council of ministers of the Hemant Soren-led government in Jharkhand was sworn in on Thursday. Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar administered the oath to the newly inducted ministers at a ceremony scheduled at the Raj Bhavan. The Governor first administered the oath of office to Jharkhand Mukti Morcha senior MLA Stephen Marandi as the Protem Speaker. Marandi, who was appointed during the cabinet's first meeting on November 28, will oversee assembly proceedings until a permanent Speaker is elected. After Marandi's oath, the newly appointed ministers were sworn in, officially marking the formation of the council of ministers.
With the oath-taking of 11 ministers, the Hemant Soren-Cabinet has been fully constituted. For the first time in 10 years, Jharkhand's state government cabinet will include 12 ministers, including the Chief Minister. In both the previous Raghubar Das government and Hemant Soren's earlier administration, one ministerial position remained vacant.
List of ministers who took oath today:
- Deepak Birua: JMM
- Chamra Linda: JMM
- Ramdas Soren: JMM
- Hafizul Hasan: JMM
- Yogendra Prasad: JMM
- Sudivya Kumar Sonu: JMM
- Radha Krishna Kishore: Congress
- Deepika Pandey Singh: Congress
- Irfan Ansari: Congress
- Neha Tirkey: Congress
- Sanjay Prasad Yadav: RJD
Jharkhand Assembly elections result
Earlier on November 28, Hemant Soren had taken oath as the 14th chief minister of Jharkhand. This is the 49-year-old JMM leader's fourth stint as CM. The JMM-led alliance last month stormed to power in Jharkhand for the second time in a row, securing 56 seats in the 81-member assembly, while the BJP-headed NDA managed 24 seats. JMM contested 43 seats and won 34, the highest-ever seats bagged by the party in assembly polls. The Congress got 16 seats, RJD 4 and the CPI (ML) secured 2 seats in the I.N.D.I.A bloc. The BJP contested 68 seats and won 21 seats and emerged as the second-largest party.
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