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Six new faces and two women are among 11 MLAs who took oath as ministers in the Hemant Soren government in Jharkhand.
As reported by PTI, Of the 11 legislators who were sworn in as ministers, six are from the Jharkhand Mukti Mrocha and four from the Congress.
Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar administered the oath to the ministers at Ashok Udyan of the Raj Bhavan in Ranchi.
The six JMM legislators, who took oath as ministers, are Sudivya Kumar, Deepak Birua, Ramdas Soren, Chamra Linda, Yogendra Prasad and Hafijul Hasan.
Congress MLAs Deepika Pandey Singh, Shilpi Neha Tirkey, Irfan Ansari and Radhakrishna Kishore were sworn in as ministers, while Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Sanjay Prasad Yadav also found a berth.
JMM leader Hemant Soren took oath as the chief minister on November 28.
Six new faces have been inducted into the Hemant Soren government, while Deepika Pandey Singh, Irfan Ansari, Deepak Birua and Ramdas Soren have got ministerial positions for the second time and Hafizul Hasan for the third.
The CM, soon after the swearing-in ceremony told reporters, Now our work will gain momentum and the government will move ahead with full speed.
Congress’ Shilpi Neha Tirkey thanked the senior leadership of the party for giving her the responsibility.
“It’s a big responsibility and I will try to fulfil it. Whatever department is given to me, I will try to do justice with my work,” she said.
JMM’s Sudivya Kumar said, “I will work for the betterment of the state and make all efforts to take all vital development indices to the top.”
The JMM-led alliance, last month, stormed to power in Jharkhand for the second time in a row, securing 56 seats in the 81-member assembly, while the Bharatiya Janata Party-headed National Democratic Alliance managed 24.
The RJD, which emerged as a surprise element in the Jharkhand assembly elections with its candidates winning in four of the six seats where the party contested, got one ministerial berth.
