RANCHI: A day after Champai Soren stepped down from the chief minister's post, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) executive president Hemant Soren took oath as the 13th chief minister of Jharkhand on Thursday (July 04).
Jharkhand governor CP Radhakrishnan administered the oath of office to Hemant Soren.
Earlier in the day, the governor had invited Soren to form the government in Jharkhand.
Champai Soren met the governor on Wednesday (July 03) to submit his resignation after the ruling coalition’s 45 MLAs elected Hemant Soren as their leader.
Hemant was released from jail after the Jharkhand high court granted him bail on June 28, five months after he was arrested.
The court noted that there were “reasons to believe that he was not guilty of the offence” of money laundering brought against him over a plot of land in Ranchi.
