Hemant escorted Mamata and Rahul Gandhi on stage, and the new chief minister took the Congress leader around the stage holding his hand. Hemant’s parents, JMM patriarch Shibu Soren and his wife Rupi Soren, were seen smiling often, specially when the new chief minister came on stage to claps and cheers from the over-5,000-strong crowd. Hemant’s predecessor Raghubar Das, who sat quietly in the front row of the dais between Congress Jharkhand in-charge R.P.N. During the ceremony, Rameshwar Oraon and Alamgir Alam of the Congress, and Satyanand Bhokta of the RJD also took oath as ministers of the Hemant Soren government. This is the second term for Hemant, who had been a deputy chief minister and chief minister earlier.

Source: The Telegraph December 29, 2019 21:42 UTC