<p>Ranchi: Basant Soren, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) supremo Shibu Soren’s youngest son, on Friday took oath as minister in the Champai Soren-led government in Jharkhand, along with seven others.</p><p>Basant is also the younger brother of former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, who is in judicial custody in a money laundering case linked to an alleged land scam.</p>.<p>The new faces in the 12-member cabinet are JMM's Chaibasa MLA Deepak Birua and Basant Soren.</p><p>Basant Soren was elected as an MLA from Dumka assembly constituency, after he defeated BJP’s Louis Marandi with a margin of 6,842 votes in a by-poll held in November 2020.</p><p>Birua won the Chaibasa seat by defeating BJP’s J B Tubid by more than 26,000 votes in the 2019 assembly polls.</p>.Ex-Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren remanded to judicial custody till February 22 in money laundering case.<p>Those who retained their ministerial berths include Rameshwar Oraon, Banna Gupta and Badal Patralekh of the Congress in addition to JMM’s Mithilesh Kumar Thakur, Hafizul Hasan and Bebi Devi.</p><p>Governor C P Radhakrishnan administered the oath of office and secrecy to the ministers.</p><p>The oath-taking ceremony was held at the Birsa Mandap of Raj Bhavan in presence of senior leaders of the JMM-led alliance and other government officials.</p>.<p>"The portfolios will be distributed today. We will take forward the work of Jharkhand’s development after assigning responsibilities to every minister," the CM said.</p><p>Earlier on February 2, 67-year-old Champai Soren was sworn in as the 12th chief minister of the state, while senior Congress leader Alamgir Alam and RJD leader Satyanand Bhokta took oath as ministers.</p><p>JMM executive president Hemant Soren was arrested by the ED on January 31, shortly after he resigned as the chief minister.</p>.<p>The JMM-led alliance in the state has 47 MLAs – JMM-29, Congress-17 and one of the RJD – in the 81-member assembly.</p><p>The BJP has 26 legislators and the AJSU Party has three. The NCP and CPI (ML) have one lawmaker each, apart from two Independents. There is also a nominated member. </p>
<p>Ranchi: Basant Soren, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) supremo Shibu Soren’s youngest son, on Friday took oath as minister in the Champai Soren-led government in Jharkhand, along with seven others.</p><p>Basant is also the younger brother of former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, who is in judicial custody in a money laundering case linked to an alleged land scam.</p>.<p>The new faces in the 12-member cabinet are JMM's Chaibasa MLA Deepak Birua and Basant Soren.</p><p>Basant Soren was elected as an MLA from Dumka assembly constituency, after he defeated BJP’s Louis Marandi with a margin of 6,842 votes in a by-poll held in November 2020.</p><p>Birua won the Chaibasa seat by defeating BJP’s J B Tubid by more than 26,000 votes in the 2019 assembly polls.</p>.Ex-Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren remanded to judicial custody till February 22 in money laundering case.<p>Those who retained their ministerial berths include Rameshwar Oraon, Banna Gupta and Badal Patralekh of the Congress in addition to JMM’s Mithilesh Kumar Thakur, Hafizul Hasan and Bebi Devi.</p><p>Governor C P Radhakrishnan administered the oath of office and secrecy to the ministers.</p><p>The oath-taking ceremony was held at the Birsa Mandap of Raj Bhavan in presence of senior leaders of the JMM-led alliance and other government officials.</p>.<p>"The portfolios will be distributed today. We will take forward the work of Jharkhand’s development after assigning responsibilities to every minister," the CM said.</p><p>Earlier on February 2, 67-year-old Champai Soren was sworn in as the 12th chief minister of the state, while senior Congress leader Alamgir Alam and RJD leader Satyanand Bhokta took oath as ministers.</p><p>JMM executive president Hemant Soren was arrested by the ED on January 31, shortly after he resigned as the chief minister.</p>.<p>The JMM-led alliance in the state has 47 MLAs – JMM-29, Congress-17 and one of the RJD – in the 81-member assembly.</p><p>The BJP has 26 legislators and the AJSU Party has three. The NCP and CPI (ML) have one lawmaker each, apart from two Independents. There is also a nominated member. </p>