RANCHI: AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi, and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee are among the prominent political figures who will attend Hemant Soren’s inauguration as Jharkhand’s 14th chief minister.
At 4 p.m., Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar will give Soren the oath of office and confidentiality.
The 49-year-old JMM leader will serve as chief minister for the fourth time.
In the most recent assembly elections, Soren defeated Gamliyel Hembrom of the BJP by a margin of 39,791 votes, retaining the Barhait seat.
The BJP-led NDA only achieved 24 seats in the 81-member legislature, while the JMM-led coalition swept to victory with 56 seats.
The city is covered in posters promoting the event, and traffic laws and increased security have been implemented.
Due to the swearing-in of the Hemant Soren administration, Ranchi city’s schools will not be open on Thursday.
Ghulam Ahmad Mir, the general secretary of the Congress and the in-charge of Jharkhand, said that Soren is probably going to take the oath by himself and that the legislature would decide to expand the cabinet.
Hours before to taking the oath, Soren went to X to declare that the state’s greatest weapon is unity, which “neither be divided nor silenced.”
Soren further said that anytime “they try to silence us,” the revolution becomes louder, seemingly in an assault on the central government run by the Bharatiya Janata Party.
“Our greatest weapon is our togetherness; let there be no question about that. We cannot be silenced or separated. We keep going even when they push us back. We are Jharkhandis, and Jharkhandis do not bend down, thus whenever they attempt to suppress us, our cry of revolt and revolution becomes stronger,” Soren wrote in Hindi on X.
The 49-year-old JMM leader will serve as chief minister for the fourth time.
“We fight relentlessly and firmly. The fight goes on and will go on to the very end,” he said.
He referred to the day as historic and said that it will further strengthen “our collective struggle,” the spirit of fraternity and love, and the dedication of Jharkhandis to justice.
“Unity must be resolved when ‘deep cracks’ are appearing in the social structure,” the interim chief minister said.
Soren tweeted the URL for the event’s live webcast and urged everyone to join his swearing-in ceremony.
According to a JMM representative, NCP chairman Sharad Pawar, Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma, Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann, and Himachal Pradesh chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu are all expected to attend.
The oath-taking event is also anticipated to be attended by CPI(ML)L general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti, and Bihar’s Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav.
When Soren visited the Morabadi field on Wednesday to assess the plans, he stated, “It’s heartening to have such esteemed leaders join us for this important occasion.”
In his first trip to the nation’s capital after guiding the alliance to a historic second straight term, Soren met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday.
With 34 of the 43 seats it ran for, the JMM recorded its highest-ever election total. In the INDIA bloc, the Congress won sixteen seats, the RJD four, and the CPI(ML)L two.
