! ,-. ! !" "'('"( ) !"#$ %& *"+ %, 4, ( '6 "# $% &' #' 7 "#6 76 7"7' ' # '6 ' " 8 6&'' ( "&)* '#+ " + 7 9:+ / - - %0 123 / '4. - !! # $ #%&"$&'()* !+ PQ R ! ! The BJP won 25 seats, president Laxman Gilua was while the JMM won 30 seats. also defeated by JMM’s he proverbial “jinn” that The Congress won 16 seats, Sukhram Oraon. TRJD chief Lalu Prasad used while the RJD won 1 seat, Gilua was also defeated in to refer to back in 90s, virtually though it was leading on five the Lok Sabha elections from came out of the EVMs on seats earlier. Chaibasa constituency. Monday and shattered the The AJSU party that had Interestingly, the BJP could dreams of BJP to retain power parted ways with its long time not save its face in the elections R in Jharkhand. The BJP's defeat ally BJP and had fielded 53 can- despite Prime Minister was so comprehensive that Chief didates could secure only two Narendra Modi holding six Minister Raghubar Das himself seats. The Jharkhand Vikas rallies, party’s national presi- lost the elections from a seat Morcha (Prajatantrik) led by dent and Union Home which was his fortress. former CM Babulal Marandi Minister Amit Shah holding The JMM-Congress-and that was the only party con- over dozens of rallies and sev- RJD alliance comfortably testing from all 81 seats could eral star campaigners of the crossed the halfway mark in the win three seats. Two party, including BJP 81-members Assembly, sweep- Independents and one member national Executive presi- ing the tribal-dominated of the CPI (ML) won the polls. dent JP Nadda camping in Sanathal Pargana region and The NCP also won one seat. the State for several weeks bki bar 65 par, the BJP set snatching several seats from the The JVM(P) chief Babulal to campaigning for the Aoff its Jharkhand cam- BJP in its traditional stronghold. Marandi finally won an elec- party. paign for the 81-member The JMM-led alliance won tion this time from Dhanwar The alliance this time Assembly election with this 47 seats, 6 more than the num- constituency after losing four made inroads in many highly ambitious slogan, ber required to prove majori- elections in a row and similar areas that were held by BJP which even the hard core ty in the House. Final tally was was the case of AJSU Party and its ally AJSU Party. cadres found difficult to still not put till the time of fil- Chief Sudesh Mahto, who won The BJP faced setback main- swallow or digest. After all, * & + & ing this report around mid- his traditional seat Silli after ly in Kolhan, Dhanbad- the party was led by a , + -. night, but nothing stood losing three elections in a row. Bokaro area and Santhal Chief Minister whose between Hemant Soren and JMM executive president Pargana, which it considered unpopularity weighed heav- than 15 rallies met the PM twice Chief Minister's chair as Hemant Soren won from both to bear fruits after benefitting ily on its poll prospects. together, reaching and pleaded that Raghubar had already conced- Dumka and Barhait seats, people with schemes like His arrogance had alienat- out to voters in even pioneer in the interest of ed defeat. while JPCC president UJJWALA Yojna, PMKSN, ed the cadres and his land right remote places. But the party, Das JMM leader Hemant Rameshwar Oraon won from MMKAY, PMAY, SBM etc. related moves upset the tribals. they failed miser- Analysis must go. But Das Soren, the son of Jharkhand Lohardaga seat. JMM executive president The stage was set for a contest ably. remained firm in architect Shibu Soren, is set to On the other hand, the BJP Hemant Soren, who was decid- with a foregone conclusion. For example, the his saddle and take up the reins of the State for faced humiliating defeat in ed to be the Chief Minister’s But the BJP leadership PM addressed rallies in both Roy was shown the door in a a second term as the Kolhan area where Chief face long before Lok Sabha counted on the charisma of Dumka and Barhait from party that harped so much on Opposition coalition compris- Minister Raghubar Das was elections by the alliance, is set Prime Minister Narendra Modi. where Opposition Chief fighting corruption. ing the party, Congress and defeated by rebel BJP leader to become the 11th Chief He was the man who could sin- Ministerial candidate Hemant The BJP leaders placed RJD surged ahead of the BJP. Saryu Roy. Roy was denied Minister of Jharkhand. Holding gle-handedly turn a defeat into Soren was in the fray. Both the their bets firmly on Das hop- His first stint as Chief Minister ticket from the party and he a press conference after the triumph, woo even the most dis- seats fall in tribal-dominated ing that he could help the party of the tribal State had lasted for chose to fight against the alliance’s win Hemant said that enchanted voters, and play up Santhal Pargana regions with return to power by attracting just about 14 months since July incumbent CM as an inde- they have bagged 47 seats. national issue in a way that peo- sizeable section of minority nearly 47 OBC voters. This 15, 2013. pendent candidate. State BJP Continued on Page 4 ple would forget the story of voters, too. didn’t happen because Das their day-to-day survival, unem- The fact that Hemant won was so unpopular that even his ployment, poverty, backward- from both the places reflects caste men were not ready to ness, corruption, fear of losing the failure of the duo in hyp- vote for him. their lands, etc. notising the masses by evoking On the other hand, his ! The PM and his second- the appeal of religion and abortive attempt to tinker with in-command Amit Shah nationalism. This is one aspect land rights of the tribals invited unleashed an aggressive cam- of the Jharkhand verdict sharp backlash. No surprise that paign that centered on would trouble the BJP for the JMM swept the tribal dom- R Citizenship Amendment Act months to come. inated seats of the State. Soren (CAA), Ram temple, scrapping The BJP leadership must and Co. reminded the BJP that of Article 370 etc., and hoped take the blame for the defeat. just like Maharashtra and to bury anti-incumbency It squarely overlooked the red Haryana the ploy to pit domi- under the heap of polarising flag raised by the State leaders nant section/caste (in case of nationalistic sloganeering. against Raghubar Das’ style of Jharkhand, tribals) against the The duo left nothing to functioning and corruption. rest had its own pitfalls. chance and addressed more Leaders like Saryu Roy had Continued on Page 4 Assembly constituency in 2009. The junior Soren had pulled down the Arjun Munda government in 2013 to become the Chief Minister, then State’s and the country’s youngest. It was practically under his lead- ership that the JMM delivered its highest ever tally of 19 seats in 2014. In 2014 he contested the election from two seats Dumka and Barhait, but lost to Louis Marandi of BJP from Dumka. Soren is currently the executive president of JMM, currently representing Barhait Assembly under Dumka dis- trict in Santhal Pargana region in Jharkhand. Hemant has the experience of not only serving State Assembly, but was elected to " Rajya Sabha from Jharkhand ! % between 2009 and 2010. Hemant &P && had also held the post of Deputy Chief Minister of Jharkhand between 2009 and 2013. Hemant was born in Nemara in Ramgarh district to ith the Jharkhand Roopi and Shibu Soren. WAssembly election results Hemant has two brothers and showing a clear victory for a sister. He did his schooling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha from Patna High School and (JMM)-led alliance, it is evident also pursued engineering from that Hemant Soren is poised to BIT Mesra, Ranchi in become the next Chief Minister Mechanical Engineering. of State. The junior Soren will In his brief stint as a Chief Singhbhum through a mix of be donning chief ministerial Minister, Hemant had brought development initiatives and chair for the second time. in progressive policies like security measures. He strong- As the trends favoured reservation of 50 per cent of ly believes in ensuring the eco- JMM alliance leading on 45 government jobs for women nomic dividends of the miner- seats in the 81-member and also played an instrumen- al rich state of Jharkhand reach Jharkhand Assembly, Hemant tal part in tackling the Maoist the tribal communities. who had inherited his father insurgency in Saranda, West Continued on Page 4 Shibu Soren’s legacy first drove down to father’s residence at Morhabadi hardly a kilometer away from his official resi- dence. Hemant taking blessings of his father Shibu Soren and mother Roopi Soren had a chat with his father about elec- tion results and then rode the bicycle in the campus. Soren, 44, a tribal leader, who is one of the giants of Jharkhand’s struggle for state- hood and a former chief min- ister himself had taken admis- sion at the prestigious engi- neering college BIT, Mesra, but could not complete his () " ! % graduation rather taking up his & & % % % & father’s political legacy. He was & P % P elected as MLA from Dumka !" #$% " workers conveyed the inclina- tion since afternoon. # Roy who was inside the college campus since 10 am left the campus at around 12:45 $ ! pm and was welcomed with huge roars by his supporters. % Roy with folded hands and :&' " thanked everybody for his support while Congress can- talwarts of Jharkhand poli- didate Banna Gupta was inside Stics on Monday received the college campus sounded major setback as the results of confident.