<p>Ranchi: Jailed Jharkhand ex-CM <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/elections/india/lok-sabha-elections-2024-shibu-soren-hemant-kalpana-among-star-campaigners-of-jmm-for-ls-polls-2997905">Hemant Soren's wife Kalpana</a> on Monday filed her <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/elections/india/lok-sabha-elections-2024-india-blocs-7-among-12-sitting-mlas-to-contest-ls-polls-from-jharkhand-bjp-chooses-3-2998354">nomination </a>as the JMM candidate from <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/elections/jharkhand/former-jharkhand-cm-hemant-sorens-wife-kalpana-soren-to-contest-bypoll-from-gandey-assembly-seat-2995171">Gandey assembly seat</a> in the state.</p>.<p>Bypoll to the seat is scheduled on May 20 along with the parliamentary elections in the state.</p>.<p>The seat in Giridih district fell vacant following the resignation of JMM MLA Sarfaraz Ahmad.</p>.<p>Kalpana, 48, was accompanied by Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren and brother-in-law Basant Soren, among others, when she filed her papers.</p>.Supreme Court seeks ED's reply on ex-Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren's interim bail plea by May 6.<p>Kalpana, a homemaker with MTech and MBA qualifications, completed her school education from Baripada in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district and obtained her engineering and MBA degrees from separate institutions in Bhubaneswar.</p>.<p>Her political journey began at the 51st foundation day celebration of the JMM in Giridih district on March 4, when she claimed that a conspiracy had been orchestrated by opponents ever since the Hemant Soren-led coalition government came to power in 2019 and that Jharkhand will give a befitting reply to the forces who put her husband behind the bars.</p>.<p>Hemant Soren was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged land scam on January 31.</p>
<p>Ranchi: Jailed Jharkhand ex-CM <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/elections/india/lok-sabha-elections-2024-shibu-soren-hemant-kalpana-among-star-campaigners-of-jmm-for-ls-polls-2997905">Hemant Soren's wife Kalpana</a> on Monday filed her <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/elections/india/lok-sabha-elections-2024-india-blocs-7-among-12-sitting-mlas-to-contest-ls-polls-from-jharkhand-bjp-chooses-3-2998354">nomination </a>as the JMM candidate from <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/elections/jharkhand/former-jharkhand-cm-hemant-sorens-wife-kalpana-soren-to-contest-bypoll-from-gandey-assembly-seat-2995171">Gandey assembly seat</a> in the state.</p>.<p>Bypoll to the seat is scheduled on May 20 along with the parliamentary elections in the state.</p>.<p>The seat in Giridih district fell vacant following the resignation of JMM MLA Sarfaraz Ahmad.</p>.<p>Kalpana, 48, was accompanied by Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren and brother-in-law Basant Soren, among others, when she filed her papers.</p>.Supreme Court seeks ED's reply on ex-Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren's interim bail plea by May 6.<p>Kalpana, a homemaker with MTech and MBA qualifications, completed her school education from Baripada in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district and obtained her engineering and MBA degrees from separate institutions in Bhubaneswar.</p>.<p>Her political journey began at the 51st foundation day celebration of the JMM in Giridih district on March 4, when she claimed that a conspiracy had been orchestrated by opponents ever since the Hemant Soren-led coalition government came to power in 2019 and that Jharkhand will give a befitting reply to the forces who put her husband behind the bars.</p>.<p>Hemant Soren was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged land scam on January 31.</p>