Hemant Soren Likely To Take Oath As Jharkhand Chief Minister Today
NDTV
Champai Soren's rise, however brief, to Chief Minister followed a power struggle within the JMM as the party scrambled to find a replacement for Hemant Soren.
Hemant Soren will be sworn in as Chief Minister of Jharkhand today, completing a five-month narrative arc stretching from January - when he quit minutes before his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate, which has accused him in a land fraud worth crores - to June - when he was given bail by a High Court that said records do not indicate his "direct involvement" in the alleged scam.
He is expected to take the oath at 5 pm.
That Mr Soren, the leader of the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, would return to claim the state's top job was never in doubt. He only quit - amid late-night drama that started with "the case of the missing Chief Minister"- to avoid the ignominy of being the first sitting state head to be arrested.
