Ranchi: JMM’s executive chief Hemant Soren took oath as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand on Thursday, days after he walked out of jail in a money laundering case.
Earlier in the day, Governor C P Radhakrishnan invited the leader to form the government, a day after his predecessor Champai Soren stepped down as Chief Minister.
Champai met the Governor on Wednesday 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 had noted that there exist “reasons to believe that he was not guilty of the offence” of money laundering brought against him over a plot of land in Ranchi.