Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar will administer the oath of office and secrecy to Soren at 4 pm.
This will be Soren’s fourth stint as chief minister. He retained the Barhait seat by defeating BJP’s Gamliyel Hembrom by a margin of 39,791 votes in the recently held Assembly polls.
Soren’s JMM-led alliance stormed to victory, securing 56 seats in the 81-member assembly, while the BJP-led NDA managed 24 seats.
Posters have been put up across the city and special security arrangements have been made with special traffic arrangements.
Key leaders attending the ceremony
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, party leader Rahul Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, and Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu are likely to attend the event.
Other notable leaders expected to attend are CPI(ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray, Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav, PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti, Udhayanidhi Stalin from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka Deputy CM D K Sivakumar, and Bihar’s Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav.
On November 26, Soren met Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his first visit to the national capital after leading his alliance to an unprecedented second consecutive term.
He was accompanied by his wife, Kalpana, who was also elected as an MLA in the recent elections. Soren also met Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, as well as AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal, inviting them to the swearing-in ceremony.
The JMM achieved its highest-ever tally in the elections, winning 34 of the 43 seats it contested. Congress secured 16, RJD 4, and CPI(ML) bagged 2 seats in the INDIA bloc.
