Ranchi

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Monday won the trust vote in the State Assembly. A total of 48 votes went in his favour. The opposition BJP staged a walkout.

Soren tabled a confidence motion in the Assembly amid politcal uncertainty over his membership in the Assembly.

On Sunday, legislators of the ruling coalition UPA, flew back to Ranchi after spending days in Chhattisgarh capital Raipur. Those who went to Raipur included 13 MLAs from Congress and 18 MLAs of JMM.

Notably, a political crisis emerged in Jharkhand after a petition by the BJP sought Soren's disqualification from the Assembly in an office of profit case.

The BJP has sought the disqualification of Soren as an MLA accusing him of allocating a mining lease to himself while he held the state Mining portfolio in 2021.

In February this year, the BJP submitted a memorandum to the state Governor Ramesh Bais seeking disqualification of Soren from the House under Section 9(A) of the Representation of People's Act.

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The Governor had forwarded the BJP complaint to the ECI and the poll panel in May had issued a notice to the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader.