Hemant Soren to be Sworn-in as Jharkhand CM on Sunday; Rahul Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal in Attendance

The Jharkhand Elections 2019 were held in five phases from November 30 till December 20. The counting of the votes had taken place on December 23.

Updated: December 28, 2019, 10:02 PM IST

Ranchi: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Hemant Soren will sworn-in as the new Chief Minister of Jharkhand at 2 PM Sunday at the Morabadi ground in Ranchi.

A number of top leaders, including former President Pranab Mukherjee, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and P Chidambaram to SP’s Akhilesh Yadav, RJD’s Tejaswi Yadav, Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal are the host of leaders have been invited to attend the grand swearing-in ceremony.

On December 26, Raj Bhawan in Jharkhand stated that Governor Droupadi Murmu will administer the oath of office to chief minister-designate Hemant Soren at 2 PM on December 29. Soren had on December 24 called on the governor at the Raj Bhavan to stake claim to form the government and submitted a letter of support of 50 MLAs to her.

Here’s a list of politicians who would be attending the swearing-in ceremony: 

S. No Names Designation
1. Pranab Mukherjee Former President of India
2. Rahul Gandhi Congress leader
3. P. Chidambaram Congress MP
4. Ahmed Patel Congress, Treasurer
5. Priyanka Gandhi General Secretary, Congress
6. Akhilesh Yadav Former CM, Uttar Pradesh
7. Tejashwi Yadav Former deputy CM, Bihar
8. Sharad Pawar NCP Chief
9. Mamata Banerjee CM, West Bengal
10. Ashok Gehlot CM, Rajasthan
11. Kamal Nath Madhya Pradesh CM
12. Bhupesh Baghel Chhattisgarh CM
13. Uddhav Thackeray Maharashtra CM
14. Sharad Yadav Former MP, Rajya Sabha
15. MK Stalin DMK leader
16. Mayawati Former CM, UP
17. HD Kumaraswamy Former CM, Karnataka
18. Arvind Kejriwal CM, New Delhi
19. Harivansh Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha
20. Kanhaiya Kumar Youth leader, CPI
21. KC Venugopal Congress leader
22. RPN Singh AICC in-charge, Jharkhand
23. Umang Singhar Congress leader
24. Pranab Jha Congress leader
25. Chandrababu Naidu Former CM, Andhra Pradesh
26. TR Balu MP
27. Kanimozhi DMK MP
28. Abdul Bari Siddiqui Former minister, Bihar
29. Harish Rawat Former CM, Uttarakhand
30. Niranjan Patnaik President, Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee

JMM received massive victory in the Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2019 in alliance with the Congress and the RJD. The three-party alliance bagged 47 of the state’s 81 seats. The JMM won 30 seats, Congress 16 and RJD one.

The Jharkhand Elections 2019 were held in five phases from November 30 till December 20. The counting of the votes had taken place on December 23.

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