Meanwhile, JMM legislative party leader Champai Soren met governor CP Radhakrishnan and staked claim to form government in the state. However, the governor has not yet extended an invitation to Soren to do so.
“We have demanded from the governor that the process to start the formation of the new Government should begin.The governor has also assured us that the process will begin soon. Currently we have submitted the report with 43 MLAs in our support. We expect that the number will reach 46-47 so there is no problem. Our ‘gathbandhan’ is very strong,” Champai Soren told reporters after meeting the governor.
Champai Soren became the new leader of the JMM legislative party after Hemant Soren resigned on Wednesday night as the chief minister by the ED in a money laundering case and his subsequent arrest.
Former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren has been sent to one-day judicial custody by a special PMLA court in Ranchi, in connection with the Enforcement Directorate probe into an alleged land scam.
ED had sought 10-day remand of the former Jharkhand chief minister but the order has been reserved.
According to the ED, CM Soren was grilled as a part of the probe into the “huge racket of illegal change of ownership of land by the mafia”.
The probe pertains to huge amounts of proceeds of crime generated by forging official records by showing “fake sellers” and purchasers in the guise of forged or bogus documents to acquire huge parcels of land valued in crores.
