In a poem in Hindi he wrote:
People say I look like father now.
But my Baba looks much better than me.
The sparkle of knowledge in his eyes,
The lines of experience on his face,
The essence of life in his smile,
I am just his emerging reflection.
Hemant Soren took oath as Jharkhand CM for the third time on Thursday. The ceremony was held a week after he was released on bail in a money laundering case. Soon after the oath he asserted that “people intoxicated with power” tried to silence him, but now the voice of the state will be strengthened.
Hemant Soren replaced Champai Soren, who resigned on Wednesday after a brief stint of nearly five months as the Jharkhand chief minister.
Champai was also present in the swearing-in ceremony along with family members of Hemant Soren and others.
Hemant Soren’s family, father, son and wife Kalpana Soren also attended the event.
Soren became the 13th chief minister of Jharkhand, which was carved out of Bihar in 2000.
Soren became the chief minister for the first time in 2013 and was in power for a year and five months. After the December 2019 assembly elections, he was again at the top post but had to resign in January this year.
Soren who became Jharkhand’s youngest chief minister at 38 was reportedly not the first choice of JMM supremo Shibu Soren as his successor, however the untimely death of his elder brother Durga Soren in 2009 established him as an important face of JMM.
Soren made his political debut as a Rajya Sabha member in 2009, however he soon resigned in 2010 to assume the role of deputy chief minister in the BJP-led Arjun Munda government in Jharkhand. However, president’s rule was imposed two years later after the collapse of the government.
He later went on to become the state’s youngest chief minister in 2013 with the support of the Congress and the RJD.