Jharkhand Assembly polls: Hemant Soren to meet governor for govt formation today; swearing-in ceremony likely on November 26

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren is scheduled to meet Governor Santosh Gangwar later today to stake claim for the formation of new government in the state. Soren will also tender his resignation from the CM post during the meeting at Raj Bhavan.

Soren will meet the governor at 4pm on Sunday and stake claim for forming the government, ANI reported. According to reports, the legislative party meeting of parties in the INDIA bloc is underway in Jharkhand and Chief Minister Hemant Soren will stake claim for government formation with letters of support from other allies. The swearing-in ceremony is likely to be held on November 26.

Key opposition leaders including Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee are likely to attend the ceremony.

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led alliance won the state assembly election by a landslide. In the election held to the 81-seat assembly, the JMM-led alliance won in 56 seats. While the JMM won at 34 seats, the second biggest party in the alliance, Congress, won at 16 seats. The Rashtriya Rashtriya Janata Dal won in four seats and CPI(ML)(L)in two. CM Soren won from Barhait by a huge margin of 39,791 votes.

Once sworn in, this will be Soren’s fourth term as CM. Talking to presspersons after winning the elections, Soren said the alliance has “passed the exam of democracy”. Soren had to resign his post earlier this year after the Enforcement Directorate arrested him in a money laundering case. However, he was sworn in again as CM in July, after he was granted bail by Jharkhand High Court in the case.