Mamata Banerjee front-&-center before Congress arrives at Hemant Soren's swearing-in

Hemant Soren will take oath as 11th Chief Minister of Jharkhand in Ranchi on Sunday at Morabi Ground at 2 pm. His party Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), along with ally Congress, won a clear majority in state elections earlier this week. He has termed event as "Sankalp Diwas" of an era of new Jharkhand, says an official press release. On Saturday, Soren also met Mamata Banerjee who is in town to attend swearing-in ceremony. 

Goverr Droupi Murmu will minister oath of office and secrecy to Soren. Leers across political spectrum will be attending event and it is expected to turn into a show of opposition unity. Congress leer Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vra, former President Pranab Mukherjee, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, NCP chief Shar Pawar, RJD leer Tejashwi Yav, SP chief Akhilesh Yav and or national and regional leers from across political spectrum have confirmed ir presence for oath-taking ceremony.

CMs of five states to attend swearing-in ceremony

Chief Ministers of as many as five states have also confirmed ir presence. y are West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Mhya Presh CM Kamal Nath, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray. Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has been invited to event but on behalf of him, party MP Sanjay Singh will attend ceremony. or leers who are likely to be present on occasion include HD Kumaraswamy, KC Venugopal, N Chandrababu Naidu, Harish Rawat, DMK MP Kanimozhi, TR Balu, Shar Yav, and Ahmed Patel. 

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Jharkhand Assembly polls

JMM fought Assembly elections in alliance with Congress party and Lalu Pras's Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) and got a comfortable majority with forty-seven seats in 81-member house. JMM won 30 seats, while Congress and RJD secured 16 and one seat respectively in recently concluded Assembly polls.  BJP won only 25 seats, failing to touch halfway mark in 81-seat Assembly. Hemant Soren who h contested from both Dumka and Barhait, like 2014, won both seats. Polling was held in 5 phases on vember 30, December 7, 12, 16, 20 and results were declared on December 23.

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(with ANI inputs)