Champai Soren
Ranchi: The journey of 67-year-old Champai Soren, from working in the fields with his father in Jillinggora village of Seraikela-Kharsawan district in Jharkhand to being named as the new Chief Minister of the state, has been quite a struggle. State Transport Minister Champai Soren, considered a loyalist of JMM chief Shibu Soren, is also known as ‘Jharkhand Tiger’ for his contribution in the long fight for a separate (Jharkhand) state in the 1990s.
worked in the fields with father
After being elected leader of the JMM legislative party, Champai said, “I used to work in the fields with my father (Simal Soren). Now fate has given me a chance to play a different role. Champai was elected the new leader of JMM Legislature Party after Hemant Soren resigned from the post of Chief Minister and his subsequent arrest in a money laundering case.
education from government school till matriculation
Champai, who studied from a government school till matriculation, got married at a very young age. He has four sons and three daughters. He started his political career by being elected as an independent MLA in the by-election from Seraikela seat in 1991. Four years later, he contested the assembly elections on JMM ticket and defeated BJP candidate Panchu Tudu. At the same time, in the 2000 assembly elections, he lost to BJP’s Anant Ram Tudu on the same seat.
Won from Seraikela seat several times
He again captured the seat in 2005, defeating the BJP candidate by a margin of 880 votes. Champhai also won the 2009, 2014 and 2019 elections. He was a cabinet minister in the Arjun Munda-led BJP-JMM coalition government between September 2010 and January 2013. When Hemant Soren formed the government in the state in 2019, Champai was made the Minister of Food and Civil Supplies and Transport. Champai’s name has been proposed as the new Chief Minister of the state and a letter of support has been submitted to Governor CP Radhakrishnan.
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