Badminton, Bicycles & More: 5 Things To Know About Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren
It’s election season in Jharkhand, where Chief Minister Hemant Soren is looking to retain power in alliance with the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). The election caps a chaotic year for the state — Soren was arrested in January in a money laundering case stemming from alleged land fraud. When he was released in June, his substitute CM — Champai Soren — was asked to resign, a move that upset the latter and pushed him towards the Opposition BJP.
The ruling Mahagathbandhan of the state is trying to project Soren’s arrest as proof of the Modi government and the BJP’s “anti-tribal” attitude, and this rhetoric is bound to find pride of place in their campaign.
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