Jharkhand Cabinet To Take Oath Today; Governor likely To Swear In Ministers

After Hemant Soren took oath as Jharkhand Chief Minister, the council of ministers of the JMM-led government will take oath on Thursday, officials said.

Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar will swear in the ministers at the Raj Bhavan here.

As per the Raj Bhavan, the swearing-in ceremony will start with Protem Speaker Stephen Marandi taking the oath around noon.

Congress leader Rajesh Thakur informed that the list has been finalised and would be sent to the governor by Soren.

"Everything has been finalised. The list will be sent to the governor by the CM. It is an alliance government. We have fought together. People elected us and we will work together for the development of the state," he said.

Accoring to the ANI source, Congress party MLAs Irfan Ansari, Deepika Pandey Singh, Radhakrishna Kishore and Shilpy Neha Tirkey are likely to take oath as ministers.

The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which emerged as a surprise element in the assembly elections with its candidates winning in four of the six seats where the party contested, will get one ministerial berth, the sources said.

The JMM contested 43 seats and secured 34, the highest-ever constituencies bagged by the party in assembly polls. The Congress got 16, RJD 4 and the CPI (ML) Liberation secured 2 in the INDIA bloc. On the other hand, The BJP contested 68 seats and secured 21 and emerged as the second-largest party in the assembly.

The JMM-led alliance, last month, stormed to power in Jharkhand for the second time in a row, securing 56 seats in the 81-member assembly, while the BJP-headed NDA managed 24.