New Delhi, November 26: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and extended a formal invitation for the swearing-in ceremony of his government, which is scheduled to be held in Ranchi on November 28.
Hemant Soren was accompanied by his wife Kalpana Soren, the newly elected MLA from the Gandey constituency.
Prime Minister Modi congratulated both Hemant Soren and his wife Kalpana Soren on their electoral success and shared pictures of the meeting on X.
Prior to this, Hemant Soren also met Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and party President Mallikarjun Kharge, inviting them to the ceremony.
The swearing-in ceremony will be held at Morabadi Ground, Ranchi, on November 28 at 4 p.m. Along with the Chief Minister, several other ministers are expected to take the oath.
Hemant Soren was unanimously elected as the leader of the INDIA bloc in the state on Sunday.
A JMM leader said that invitations have been sent to various prominent political figures, including RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, Bihar's Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal, CPI-ML leader Dipankar Bhattacharya, and the Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Punjab, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Telangana, and Jammu and Kashmir.
The results of the 81-member Jharkhand Assembly elections, announced on November 23, gave the Hemant Soren-led JMM-Congress-RJD alliance a resounding victory with 56 seats. The JMM won 34, the Congress 16, the RJD 4, and the CPI-ML 2 seats. This marks the first time a government in Jharkhand has secured a two-thirds majority.
Hemant Soren will make history as the first leader to be sworn in as Jharkhand's Chief Minister four times. He first took oath on July 13, 2013, leading a Congress-RJD-supported government until December 2014.
