Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren with his mother Rupi Soren after the victory of JMM-led I.N.D.I.A. bloc in the Jharkhand Assembly elections.
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Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Saturday expressed gratitude to people of the state for I.N.D.I.A. bloc’s stellar performance in the assembly polls, asserting that it passed the exam of democracy.
The coalition comprising the JMM, Congress, RJD and CPIM(L) Liberation is headed for a decisive victory, having won 31 seats and leading in 24 others. Soren has already won from the Barhait seat by a margin of 39,791 votes, defeating BJP’s Gamliyel Hembrom.
“We have passed the exam of democracy in Jharkhand; we will finalise our strategy after the election results,” Soren said at a press conference here.
“I express my gratitude to the people for this stupendous performance,” he said.
Soren also said Jharkhand is set to script ‘Abua Raj, Abua Sarkar’ (own state, own govt).
Meanwhile, AICC general secretary Ghulam Ahmad Mir said “Soren is the CM of Jharkhand and will continue to remain so”.
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Assembly Elections 2024 | The Maharashtra Assembly polls took place against the backdrop of a fractured political landscape in the western state where the Shiv Sena and NCP went up against the Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar factions, even as the BJP and Congress tried to make their mark. Maha Yuti are currently comfortably poised to win. Meanwhile, in Jharkhand, the JMM faced a challenge after Hemant Soren's arrest and Champai, a longstanding party member, joining the BJP, but look set to retain power with its I.N.D.I.A. allies. Check live updates and track the latest coverage, live news, in-depth opinions, and analyses only on Deccan Herald.
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