Raghubar Das takes oath as the 10th Jharkhand Chief Minister in Ranchi on Sunday. PTI
The 60-year-old Das, who will head a two-party coalition, made it to the venue to wild cheering by thousands of supporters after offering prayers at a Hanuman temple and a Shani temple.
But the crowds thronging the Morabadi football ground here were disappointed as Prime Minister Narendra Modi failed to make it to the event as he couldn’t take off from New Delhi due to bad weather. A thick fog in northern India also prevented BJP president Amit Shah, party veteran LK Advani and Home Minister Rajnath Singh from making it to Ranchi.
Governor Syed Ahmad administered the oath of office and secrecy to Das and four ministers — three from the BJP and one from the All-Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU).
BJP ministers are Neelkanth Singh Munda, CP Singh and Louis Marandi, who defeated outgoing Chief Minister Hemant Soren in the Dumka Assembly constituency. The AJSU representative in the ministry is Chandra Prakash Chaudhary. This is first time a non-tribal will lead the government in Jharkhand. All previous nine Chief Ministers were tribals.
A five-time legislator, Das was elected the BJP legislature party leader on Friday after the BJP won 37 seats in the 81-member Assembly. The AJSU got five seats to give the two parties a majority in the House.
Das joined the BJP in 1980, the year it was formed following the break-up of the Janata Party. He has been the Jharkhand BJP president twice. Das, a law graduate, belongs to a large family and has three brothers and three sisters. He married Rukmani Devi and has a son and a daughter.
He was elected a legislator for the first time in 1995 from Jamshedpur east to the then Bihar state assembly. When Jharkhand was carved out from Bihar in 2000, he became labour minister in Babulal Marandi’s government. He was a minister in Arjun Munda’s government too. After the 2009 Assembly polls, Das became the deputy Chief Minister in the Shibu Soren government. — IANS
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