Champai Soren Takes Oath As Jharkhand Chief Minister | Read

Champai Soren took oath as Chief Minister of Jharkhand Friday afternoon, two days after Hemant Soren's dramatic, and controversial, arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case. Mr Soren will be required to prove his majority in a floor test to be scheduled in the next 10 days. The 67-year-old Mr Soren is backed by 43 MLAs from the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-Congress-Rashtriya Janata Dal alliance, many of whom took oath with their new leader today. His swearing-in puts an end, for now, to one half of the political crisis that has engulfed Jharkhand this week.