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Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader Hemant Soren took oath as Jharkhand chief minister for a second time at a grand ceremony attended by a galaxy of opposition leaders and regional satraps. The JMM- Congress- RJD coalition shocked the BJP in the recently concluded assembly polls. The last of the year 2019.
The 44-year-old tribal leader was sworn in as the 11th chief minister of the state by Governor Droupadi Murmu.
It is the second term for Soren, who had been a deputy chief minister and chief minister between 2009 and 2013.
Among those in attendance were Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Trinamool Congress boss and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, her Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh counterparts Ashok Gehlot and Bhupesh Baghel, Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Dravida Munnetra Kazagham leader M K Stalin, his sister Kanimozhi, and Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Tejashwi Yadav, AAP Leader Sanjay Singh.
Former assembly speaker and Congress leader Alamgir Alam, Jharkhand PCC president Rameshwar Oraon and RJD MLA Satyanand Bhokta were the other three ministers who took oath after Soren.
