Ranchi, Jan 31 (PTI) Jharkhand Transport Minister Champai Soren was on Wednesday unanimously elected as the JMM legislative party leader by the ruling alliance in the state.
The ruling alliance proposed the senior Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader’s name as the new chief minister.
Champai Soren, who played a crucial role in the movement for the creation of a separate state of Jharkhand, was chosen after incumbent Hemant Soren stepped down amid speculations of his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate.
Soren has been a legislator from Serikela assembly constituency for more than three decades since 1991 and is known to be a loyalist of JMM supremo Shibu Soren.
Born in November 1956 at Jilinggora village in Jharkhand’s Seraikela-Kharsawan district, Soren is a matriculate and father of seven children. He is the son of a farmer and is not related to the Hemant Soren family. PTI SAN/NAM MNB
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