Voting for two Rajya Sabha seats in Jharkhand began on Thursday with JMM, Congress and BJP-backed independent candidate Parimal Nathwani locked in a keenly watched contest.
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on Saturday named former minister and Latehar MLA Baidyanath Ram as its candidate for one of the two Rajya Sabha seats from the state, while Congress leaders moved to defuse alliance tensions ahead of the June 8 nomination deadline.
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.
According to Shahdeo, the government had fixed annual targets of 2 lakh houses in 2023-24, 3.5 lakh in 2024-25, and 2.5 lakh in 2025-26, but the actual progress has been minimal.
Followers of the Birsaite Panth gathered in large numbers at the ancestral home of the late Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) patriarch Shibu Soren on Monday to offer special prayers for his departed soul.
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.
