Hours after taking workplace, Hemant takes battle to Himanta’s turf

Hours after JMM chief Hemant Soren was sworn in because the 14th chief minister of Jharkhand, his authorities on Thursday accredited the formation of a panel to review the plight of the “marginalised” tea tribes in Assam.

The choice, taken within the first cupboard assembly of the Soren authorities, got here in opposition to the backdrop of the ballot battle between the JMM (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha)-led coalition and the NDA, wherein Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma repeatedly raised the problem of the “predicament” of Jharkhand’s tribal group owing to alleged large-scale infiltration from Bangladesh. Sarma was the BJP’s election co-in-charge for Jharkhand.

“In Assam, tribes from Jharkhand are being marginalised. A lot of unique inhabitants of Jharkhand are residing there. We’ve determined that an all-party panel will examine the bottom state of affairs there. The panel will submit its report back to the Jharkhand authorities,” Soren stated whereas briefing the media on the choices of his first cupboard assembly.

Soren had raised the problem of the tea tribes in Assam earlier additionally and now, after successful the elections, he determined to kind the panel which is considered as taking the struggle to Sarma’s turf.

The JMM-led alliance final week stormed to energy in Jharkhand for the second time in a row, securing 56 seats within the 81-member meeting, whereas the BJP-headed NDA managed 24 seats.