The Jharkhand cabinet took final shape as 11 MLAs took oath as ministers on Thursday. The long-awaited Cabinet expansion was done nearly a week after JMM's Hemant Soren took oath as the chief minister for the fourth term. The ruling JMM-led coalition won 56 out of 81 Assembly seats in the recently concluded state polls.






In the new Cabinet, JMM has seven ministers, Congress has four and RJD one. Governor Santosh Gangwar administered oath as protem Speaker of the Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha to Maheshpur JMM MLA Stephen Marandi. Apart from Soren, the cabinet has these ministers:



  1. Chamra Linda (JMM)

  2. Deepak Birua (JMM)

  3. Ram Das Soren (JMM)

  4. Hafizul Hasan (JMM)

  5. Yogendra Prasad (JMM)

  6. Sudeep Sonu (JMM)

  7. Radha Krishna Kishore (Congress)

  8. Deepika Pandey (Congress)

  9. Irfan Ansari (Congress)

  10. Shilpi Neha Tirkey (Congress)

  11. Sanjay Yadav (RJD)


As part of the INDIA bloc, JMM contested 43 seats and won 34, Congress got 16 seats, RJD four and the CPI (ML) Liberation secured two seats. The BJP-led NDA managed to win only 24 seats, with the BJP securing 21. Its allies, the AJSU Party, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), and JD-U, won one seat each. The Jharkhand Loktantrik Krantikari Morcha also won a seat, with its leader Jairam Kumar Mahato emerging victorious in the Dumri constituency.


A special session of the Jharkhand Assembly is scheduled to take place from December 9 to 12, during which the Soren-led government is also expected to seek a trust vote. AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal, his wife Sunita Kejriwal, party MP Raghav Chadha, and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann attended Hemant Soren's oath-taking ceremony.