Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren was brought back to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) after the Champai Soren-led Jharkhand government won the Trust Vote in the State Assembly on Monday.
The state Assembly on Monday approved the motion of confidence in the newly established Jharkhand government, which is headed by Chief Minister Champai Soren. The coalition government secured a 47:29 majority in the floor test. The House’s proponents and opponents of the motion were asked to take their seats one by one by Assembly Speaker Rabindra Nath Mahato.
“(A total of) 47 votes have been received in favour of the motion. There were 29 votes against the motion. Thus, this House passes the Trust Vote,” the Speaker said before adjourning the House till 11 am on Tuesday.
In the 81-member assembly, the halfway mark for a majority is 41.
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha with 29 seats, and its ally Congress with 17 were confident of easily sailing through the Trust Vote.
Hemant Soren, the former chief minister of Jharkhand, was also present in the Assembly for the floor test. He was taken into custody by the Directorate of Enforcement in connection with an alleged land scam. Soren was permitted to cast a vote in favor of the trust by a special court in Ranchi. Hemant Soren, who was debating the topic, stated that his arrest is only one instance of the various forms of oppression that Dalits and tribal people experience in society.
“If you look back at the oppression faced by adivasis, backward, Dalits and minorities, it has been brought forward in multiple ways in different forms. January 31 is an example of this oppression,” he said.
Lashing out at the Bharatiya Janata Party, the former Chief Minister said, “I do not understand why the ruling (central) government has so much hatred towards adivasis and dalits…They don’t hesitate to say that we should remain in jungles. If we come out of jungle their graves will get dirty. They think that we are untouchables.”
Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren while setting off the debate on the trust motion said that the Centre is misusing the agencies.
“The one who is ruling the Central government misused agencies. In 2019, Hemant got the mandate. Such a Chief Minister is arrested in a land scam case,” the Chief Minister said supporting his predecessor.
