The Jharkhand unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday organised a women’s protest march in Ranchi, targeting the ruling JMM-Congress-RJD alliance over the issue of women’s reservation.
The debate over implementing women’s reservation gathered momentum on Sunday, with political parties raising questions about timelines, intent and its linkage with delimitation.
Jharkhand Chief Minister and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) president Hemant Soren on Sunday campaigned in Assam’s Dibrugarh district and sought support for the party’s candidates in Tingkhong and Sonari Assembly segments.
The decision, taken a day before the nomination deadline, signals a break in coordination between the two INDIA bloc partners in the state and points to a fragmented opposition contest.
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and the Indian National Congress are in advanced stages of talks for a possible alliance in the upcoming Assam Assembly elections, even as Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has kept alternative options open if seat-sharing negotiations fail.
Former Jharkhand Chief Minister and Rajya Sabha MP Shibu Soren was cremated with full state honours on Tuesday at his ancestral village, Nemra, in Ramgarh district.
Tributes poured in on Monday for Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) founder and former chief minister Shibhu Soren, who passed away in Delhi after a prolonged illness.
Shibu Soren did not begin his life with the ambition to govern. Born in 1944 in a modest tribal household in Nemra village, Ramgarh, he grew up witnessing systemic injustice — not in theory, but in the lived, brutal reality of land seizures, forest exclusion, and social alienation. He didn’t enter politics for power.
Veteran Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader and former Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren passed away on Monday morning following a prolonged illness.
JMM Rajya Sabha MP Mahua Maji speaks on the normal morning in Rajya Sabha before Jagdeep Dhankhar’s shocking resignation as Vice President, says he wished those whose birthday it was that day, including LoP Kharge
