Jharkhand Assembly: JLKM  president Jairam Mahato grabs attention on his maiden entry

CM leads lawmakers in taking oath in assembly

Rabindra Mahato set to retain speaker post

Ranchi, December 9: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Monday took oath as a member of the Jharkhand Assembly on the first day of the four-day session of the House.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Radhakrishna Kishore, Revenue and Land Reforms Minister Deepak Birua and Labour Minister Sanjay Prasad Yadav were among the ministers in the Hemant Soren cabinet who also took oath as members of the assembly.

The CM and the ministers were among 80 elected representatives who were administered the oath as MLAs by the assembly’s pro-tem Speaker Stephen Marandi soon after the proceedings of the House began at 11 am.

The House was adjourned till 11 am on Tuesday after the oath-taking ceremony. The Protem speaker would himself take oath tomorrow.

“All MLAs and ministers took oath today. We will move for next proceedings tomorrow,” the CM later told reporters.

The Speaker’s election is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, an assembly official said

Kishore said Nala MLA Rabindra Nath Mahato is likely to be elected as Speaker of the House unopposed as all members, including those of the BJP, have given their consent for it.

The four-day session will conclude on December 12. Besides Speaker’s election, governor’s address, presentation of the second supplementary budget and debate on the governor’s speech are also scheduled during the session, the official said.

Hemant Soren took oath as the 14th chief minister of Jharkhand in a grand ceremony here on November 28, while 11 MLAs took oath as state ministers on December 5.

Jharkhand Loktantrik Krantikari Morcha (JLKM)  president and newly elected MLA, Jairam Kumar Mahato, marked his entrance to the Jharkhand Assembly on Monday in a unique manner—barefoot. He described the assembly as a ‘temple of democracy,’ expressing reverence for the institution and his constituents by entering unshod. ‘The faith of lakhs of people remains intact inside the assembly complex,’ Mahato conveyed to a national news agency, promising to uphold their hopes within the legislative halls.

Representing the Dumri Assembly constituency, Mahato is the sole MLA from his party.

Before stepping into the assembly, he bowed at its entrance, just as the special four-day session began.