Jharkhand 🧔Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Hemant Soren will take oath as chief minister on December 29 at 1 pm, he said on Tuesday after meeting the governor to stake claim to form the Jharkhand government.
Soren was formally elected the JMM legislature part♏y leader on Tuesday, part✅y sources said.
He has been projected as the chief ministerial candidate by the JMM, Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal(RJD) allia🐼nce that has won with majority in✤ the recently concluded Assembly polls.
The Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik), which has won three seats, also extended support to the pre-poll alliance of JMM, Congress and RJD. The support by the JVM-P came after Soren called on Babulal Marandi at his residence𒅌, a JVM-P press release said.
The JMM-led three-party alliance stormed to power in Jharkhand on Monday,🎉 ousting the BJP, which went to the polls without its long-time ally AJSU for the first time.
The ruling BJP bagged 25ꦦ seats, five less than the JMM which led the table, clinching 30 in the 81-member House. The AJSU party won two seats.
The JMM-led alliance, which also has the Congress and the RJD, secured 47 seats, way above the majority mark of 41. The JMM won 30 seats, the 🔯Congress 16 and the RJD one.
(With inputs from PTI)
