Jharkhand Cabinet expanded with 11 MLAs taking oathas ministers

The Hemant Soren-led Jharkhand government expanded the cabinet on Thursday with the induction of eleven new ministers.

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State Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new ministers at a ceremony held at the Raj Bhawan this afternoon.

The cabinet now includes representation from Congress, the RJD, and the JMM, reflecting the alliance's spectacular victory in the recent state assembly polls. Among the MLAs that took oath as ministers on Thursday, six belonged to Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and four to Congress while the RJD was also given a single ministerial berth in the Soren cabinet.

JMM MLAs Yogendra Prasad, Sudivya Kumar, Ramdas Soren, Hafizul Hasan, Deepak Birua, and Shilpi Neha Tirkey, Irfan Ansari, Dipika Pandey Singh, and Radha Krishna Kishore, have been inducted into the cabinet of CM Soren. RJD MLA Sanjay Prasad Yadav was also sworn in as minister in the JMM-led Mahagathbandhan government in the state.