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Ranchi: Champai Soren, who once farmed with his father in a remote village in Jharkhand’s Seraikela Kharsawan district, has become the state’s chief minister.
The 67-year-old tribal leader has earned the nickname “Tiger of Jharkhand” for his contributions to the long fight for the creation of a separate state in the 1990s, which was carved out of the southern state of Bihar in 2000.
Champai, an ally of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha president Shibu Soren, became the leader of the JMM Legislative Party after the education ministry forced Chief Minister Hemant Soren to resign in a money laundering case and Soren was arrested on January 31 night.
He is the seventh person to become the Chief Minister of Jharkhand and the third from the JMM to do so after Shibu Soren and his son Hemant.
“I used to work on the farm with my father (Shimal Soren). Now, fate has given me a different role,” Champai Soren told PTI after being elected as the JMM Legislative Party leader.
A government school graduate, he began his political career in 1991 when he was elected as an independent member of the state assembly from Saraikela constituency in Bihar.
Four years later, he contested the state assembly elections on a JMM ticket and defeated the BJP’s Panchu Tudu. In the state’s first assembly elections in 2000, he lost to the BJP’s Anand Ram Tudu in the same constituency.
He won back his seat in 2005, defeating the BJP candidate by just 880 votes.
Champhai Soren went on to win subsequent elections in 2009, 2014 and 2019.
He served as a cabinet minister in the Arjun Munda-led BJP government from September 2010 to January 2013.
When Hemant Soren formed his second government in the state in 2019, Champai Soren was made Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Transport. He married young and has four sons and three daughters.
Published February 2, 2024 09:57 IST
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