Live
- Hyderabad: Police bust drug racket, three land behind bars
- HC extends Sengar’s interim bail till Jan 20
- Foundation stone laid for drinking water pipeline
- Hyderabad: Fake tea powder unit busted, stocks worth Rs 1.2L seized
- Mastermind of kidnapping gang targeting celebrities arrested
- Khanapur: Temples celebrate their anniversaries grandly
- Ensure 100% enrolment of women into SHGs, urges Collector
- Resolve Prajavani petitions quickly: DC Venkatesh Dotre
- Record govt jobs provided in one and a half years says Narendra Modi
- Women SHG members trained in handicrafts, manufacturing
Jharkhand Cabinet expansion: Champai Soren, 10 others take oath; CM's brother dropped
Eleven ministers, including Champai Soren, took oath in the Hemant Soren cabinet in Jharkhand on Monday.
Ranchi: Eleven ministers, including Champai Soren, took oath in the Hemant Soren cabinet in Jharkhand on Monday.
Governor C.P. Radhakrishnan administered the oath to the ministers at a ceremony held at Raj Bhavan at 4 p.m.
Champai Soren, who had earlier replaced Hemant Soren as CM, is back in the cabinet. Other ministers who took oath include Congress' Dr Rameshwar Oraon, Banna Gupta, Irfan Ansari, Deepika Pandey Singh, JMM's Mithilesh Thakur, Deepak Birua, Baidyanath Ram, Hafizul Hasan, and RJD's Satyanand Bhokta.
Notably, Hemant Soren's younger brother, Basant Soren, and Congress leader Badal Patralekh were dropped from the cabinet. Three new faces -- Dr Irfan Ansari (Congress), Deepika Pandey Singh (Congress), and Baidyanath Ram (JMM) -- have been inducted into the cabinet.
Irfan Ansari replaces former minister Alamgir Alam, who is currently in jail, while Deepika Pandey Singh replaces Badal Patralekh. Baidyanath Ram replaces Basant Soren.
Hemant Soren had taken oath as CM for the third time on July 4. His government won the trust vote in the one-day special session of the Assembly on Monday.
Hemant Soren was arrested by the ED on January 31 in a money laundering case related to a land scam and had to resign as CM. He was succeeded by Champai Soren, who resigned on July 4 after Hemant Soren's release from jail on June 28.
