Jharkhand Cabinet : Hemant Soren Retains Key Portfolios, Former CM Gets Water Resources.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Monday won the floor test and allocated portfolios to the ministers in his new Cabinet, retaining key departments such as Home, Personnel, and Cabinet Secretariat for himself.

Former CM Champai Soren, who stepped down a day before Hemant Soren was sworn in as CM for the fifth time, was allotted the Water Resources Department, as well as Higher Education and Technical Education portfolios. On Monday, a total of 12 ministers were inducted into the Hemant Soren Cabinet.

Here’s the full list of Cabinet ministers in Jharkhand:

• Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren: Home, Personnel Department, and Cabinet Secretariat.
• Former CM Champai Soren: Water Resources, Higher Education, and Technical Education.
• JMM’s Badiyanath Ram: School Education and Excise.
• Congress’ Deepika Pandey Singh: Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Disaster Management.
• Congress’ Irfan Ansari: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, and Rural Works.
• JMM’s Dipak Birua: SC, ST, OBC Welfare, and Transport.
• JMM’s Bebi Devi: Women and Child Development, and Social Welfare.
• Congress’ Rameshwar Oraon: Finance, Planning, Commercial Taxes, and Parliamentary Affairs.
• RJD’s Satyanand Bhokta: Labour and Industries.
• Congress’ Banna Gupta: Health, Food, Public Distribution, and Consumer Affairs.
• JMM MLA Hafizul Hasan: Minorities’ Welfare, Registration, Urban Development, Tourism, and Sports and Youth Affairs.
• JMM’s Mithilesh Kumar Thakur: Drinking Water and Sanitation.