Jharkhand, eastern state of India. It came into existence in the year 2000 and now when it is completing its 24th year, once again the politics here is going through the same phase for which Jharkhand has been famous. In the last 24 years, the state has seen many Chief Ministers with very short tenures. This trend started with the creation of the state and then it became clear that ‘politically, Jharkhand is an unstable state.’
Today there is talk of this instability because the latest scenario is related to this. What happened is that last July, Champai Soren, who was the CM of Jharkhand, had resigned. His becoming CM was also a surprising development, in which when the then CM Hemant Soren was sent to jail, he handed over the CM chair to Champai Soren. CM Soren had to be arrested due to allegations of corruption in the mining case.
After about five months, when Hemant Soren came out, he returned to power and Champai Soren had to resign, Hemant Soren once again became the CM, but since then the news of Champai Soren’s rebellious attitude was in the headlines. Let’s take a look at when and what happened in this incident of Hemant Soren going to jail, Champai Soren becoming CM, then resigning and now taking a rebellious stand.
CM Soren arrested, sent to jail (31 January 2024)
The talk starts from January 31, 2024. ED interrogated Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren for a long time in the money laundering case related to mining and then arrested him. Before his arrest, Hemant Soren resigned from his post. Champai Soren was elected as the new leader from the JMM-Congress and RJD alliance. Support related to this was also handed over to the Governor from the ruling party. After this, Champai Soren became CM under the process.
Champai Soren took oath as CM (2 February 2024)
Champai Soren took oath as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand on Friday afternoon, February 2, 2024, two days after the arrest of Hemant Soren by ED in the money laundering case. After this, he also secured majority votes and thus the JMM government in Jharkhand was saved from falling. Hemant Soren’s arrest did not affect the government.
Also read: ‘Welcome to the NDA family…’, Jitan Ram Manjhi posted for Champai Soren.
Hemant Soren gets bail, released from jail (28 June 2024)
June 28 brought relief news for former Chief Minister Hemant Soren. He got bail from the State High Court in the case related to land scam and was also released. He also came out of jail by evening. Hemant Soren was in jail for five months. During the hearing on June 13, after the completion of the arguments by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the defense side, the High Court reserved the decision, on which the decision came out on June 28.
What did former CM Champai Soren say on the release of Hemant Soren?
Champai Soren, who was then CM, while talking to the media, had said, ‘We have been saying from the beginning, Hemant Babu’s name was nowhere in the accounts and ledgers of the land for which he was being accused of scam. We had full faith in the court that justice will be done to Hemant Babu.’ He was asked whether you will get strength in the assembly elections after Hemant Soren’s exit? In response he had said, ‘Earlier also we had got the mandate in his name. Fought in his name in 2019 also. We fought in his name in this general election also. He is the working president of our party. He was strong even when he was inside, he will become even stronger once he comes out.
…but Champai Soren’s CM chair is under threat (3 July 2024)
On this day, for the first time, news came out quoting sources that Hemant Soren is ready to occupy the CM chair again after his release and Champai Soren will resign. A party source had informed the media that ‘the alliance leaders and MLAs had unanimously decided to elect Hemant Soren as the leader of the JMM legislature party during a meeting at the residence of Chief Minister Champai Soren in Ranchi. In the meeting, Champai It was decided to bring Hemant Soren in place of Soren.
Champai Soren resigned at 8 pm on the same day
It was reported quoting sources that CM Champai Soren will resign at around 8 pm on July 3. Along with this, he had asked all the MLAs and ministers of Jharkhand alliance to be ready to go to Raj Bhavan at 7 o’clock. This news was also confirmed in the evening. Champai Soren resigned from the post of Chief Minister. It was also decided that Hemant Soren would become the next CM in his place. Champai Soren thus remained the Chief Minister for 153 days.
What did Champai Soren say immediately after his resignation?
Champai Soren gave his first reaction after submitting his resignation from the post of Chief Minister to the Governor. While coming out of the Raj Bhavan, while talking to the media, he had said, ‘Recently, due to political circumstances, I was made the Chief Minister. But after Hemant Soren came out of jail, our alliance has decided that he will become the Chief Minister again.
Speculation that Champai Soren is angry (4 July 2024)
Champai Soren resigned, there were speculations that he was angry. From social media to news, quoting sources, such claims were made that Champai Soren has become angry, although there was no official confirmation from his side. But it is clear from the events of 18th August that this leader of Kolhan region had become angry with the party JMM and CM Hemant Soren since 3rd July, although Champai Soren himself has never accepted this clearly. Was.
Speculations started about joining BJP (16 August 2024)
Political turmoil suddenly intensified in Jharkhand on Friday. News came out that former CM Champai Soren was going to rebel along with Hemant Soren and the party. He has come to meet the top BJP leadership in Delhi. Just before the assembly elections in Jharkhand, there was speculation about former CM and JMM leader Champai Soren joining BJP.
What did Champai Soren say on the speculations (Friday 16 August 2024)
Amidst these discussions, when he was asked about this on Friday, he himself answered. Champai Soren smiled at the journalists’ question and just said, “You people are asking such a question, but what can we say on this, we are in front of you.” As soon as he said this, he sat in the car. Let us tell you that after Hemant Soren returned from jail, Champai Soren had to resign from the post of CM. Since then there has been talk of his being angry.
Champai Soren talked to BJP leaders on phone! (Saturday 17 August 2024)
According to sources, Champai reached Kolkata on Saturday and then Delhi on Sunday afternoon. It is believed that he also had a phone conversation with some senior BJP leaders and a face-to-face meeting may also take place soon. Champai Soren plans to stay in Delhi for three days. Apart from Champai Soren, there is talk of 5-6 more JMM MLAs also being in touch with BJP.
Also read: ‘They insulted me by removing me from the post of CM, now I am forced to look for an alternative…’, Champai Soren’s open rebellion against JMM.
Champai removes JMM from X’s bio (Sunday 18 August 2024)
There was a lot of speculation after JMM leader and former Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren came to Delhi on Sunday. Meanwhile, Champai Soren has removed the name of his party Jharkhand Mukti Morcha from the bio of his social media platform Now on the new bio of Champai Soren, only Jharkhand former CM is written.
Champai Soren came out openly against JMM (Sunday 18 August 2024)
Champai Soren, the commander and lieutenant of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha for four decades, became disillusioned with his own party. Accusing JMM of insulting him, he has made clear his intention to part ways. Soren has said that all his options are open to choose his future partner.
His allegation is that he was disgraced and ousted from power. All his rights were frozen by his own party and Hemant Soren’s close ones. Without disclosing the agenda, a meeting of the legislature party was called and the order for resignation was passed. There was a ban on attending all the programs for three days. Therefore, he had decided that either he would retire, or he would set up a parallel organization, or he would choose a companion to walk with him. That means he has made an informal announcement of leaving the party.
How much impact will Champai Soren’s departure have on the government’s health?
However, his departure does not seem to have any impact on the health of the government at the moment. In Jharkhand, 8 seats are vacant in the 81-seat assembly, while JMM has 26, Congress has 16 and RJD has one MLA. CPIML MLA Vinod Singh is also in the ruling party. The figure 37 is the number of majority. Here BJP has 23, AJSU has 3, NCP has 1, and 2 independents are also in the NDA camp. This means that at present there does not appear to be any threat to Hemant government.
BJP has been continuously praising Champai Soren.
However, BJP has been continuously praising Champai. She has also been saying that JMM has treated her very badly. He was thrown away like a fly in milk. It is clear that BJP wants to create a narrative in the assembly elections that even a tribal leader is insulted in JMM, so in the name of which tribal identity is the party asking for votes? How will someone who could not be loyal to a decades-old loyalist like Champai Soren maintain loyalty among the common people?
Here Hemant Soren has also retaliated
Hemant Soren has targeted Champai and BJP in gestures and said that the house and the party are being broken on the basis of money. Very soon, election bells are going to ring in the state. Our opponent BJP has the call of when these elections will be held. The Election Commission is no longer a constitutional institution. It has now become an organization of BJP. We challenge them and say that hold elections today and tomorrow they will have to be swept up and sent to Gujarat. These people bring people from Gujarat, Assam and Maharashtra and work to sow poison among the tribals, Dalits, backward classes and minorities and make them fight with each other. Leave aside the society, these people do the work of breaking houses and breaking parties. One day we buy this MLA, sometimes we buy that MLA, and money is such a thing that even politicians do not find it difficult to move here and there, no problem. Our India Coalition government has been continuously standing among the people since 2019.
Party spokesperson Manoj Pandey said whether Champai Soren was insulted or honored. He was handed over the post of CM under adverse circumstances, yet he got misled by the tricks of BJP. What could be a greater honor than this that the party expressed confidence in him only among so many MLAs.
JMM has been accusing BJP
JMM has been saying these things repeatedly among the public that BJP has always been trying to destabilize the power here. It has been trying to gain power through external leaders and by using the central agency. JMM’s morale is on sky high also because the High Court has granted bail to Hemant Soren, who was under arrest for 5 months in ED’s money laundering case, saying that there is no concrete evidence against him. He has also got relief from the Supreme Court. If Champai joins BJP then JMM will seek votes and sympathy among the public on those issues. Before this, when Hemant was in jail, in the Lok Sabha elections, BJP had lost on 5 Lok Sabha seats reserved for tribals in the state. Once again, it is considered certain that JMM will mobilize the tribals on these basis. There are 28 tribal seats in the assembly. Of these, BJP had lost on 26 seats in 2019.
BJP was continuously putting strings on Champai
Obviously, Champai Soren, who has been an old and tall leader, is being said that BJP was baiting him ever since he was ousted from power. JMM alleges that BJP is a party that creates divisions both at home and in the party. It is also being claimed that Himanta Biswa Sarma is in touch with BJP’s election in-charge and co-election in-charge Shivraj Singh Chauhan. However, no BJP leader is saying anything openly. BJP spokesperson Pratul Shahdev said that Champai Soren’s post made it clear that dictatorship runs in JMM. It has become clear that outside Shibu Soren, no tribal member of the family can tolerate JMM.