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Historic Mandate, Historic Responsibility: Can Hemant Soren Deliver Justice, Jobs, and Rights for Jharkhand’s Muslims?
Jharkhand’s Muslims voted overwhelmingly for the INDIA bloc, breaking historical patterns to re-elect Hemant Soren’s government. Despite this historic mandate, key demands such as the anti-mob lynching law, compensation for violence victims, and minority-focused reforms remain unfulfilled. Activists urge swift action on education, health, and justice to honor promises and regain trust
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Hemant Soren Govt to Equalize Home Guard Pay After Decades-Long Fight, But Why Is It Not Enough?
Ranchi: After 25 years of battling with the system, around 19,000 of Jharkhand’s home guards will now benefit from the Equal Work, Equal Pay Act. Sources said that Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has agreed to increase the daily wage of home guards from Rs 500 to Rs 1088, bringing it in line with that…
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From Hope to Doubt: Jharkhand Muslims and the Hemant Soren Government
Ranchi: In 2019, when the Hemant Soren-led Gathbandhan government came to power, Muslims played a major role in it. Muslims, the largest minority in the state, had witnessed several instances of mob lynching during the tenure of Raghubhar Das-led NDA government. Muslim officers were not getting plum or important postings. The BJP government did not…
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Mob Lynching Shadows Hemant Soren’s Confidence Win in Ranchi
Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren won a vote of confidence today. Later, his cabinet ministers took the oath of secrecy in the presence of the Governor of Jharkhand. However, when Soren was about to prove his majority inside the assembly in Ranchi, another incident of mob lynching was reported in the state capital. Thirty-year-old…
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Will the 1932 domicile policy change Jharkhand forever?
On September 14, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s cabinet approved a bill to make land survey records from 1932 the basis for obtaining residential certificates to gain admission to educational institutions and get government jobs. The Soren government also increased reservations for members of the Other Backward Classes from 14% to 27%. With the opposition…
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Hemant Soren government wins battle of perception, CM delivers most aggressive speech
Ranchi: In the battle of perception, Hemant Soren-led United Progressive Alliance defeated the opposition or more precisely Bharatiya Janata Party in Jharkhand on Monday. A trust vote, which was called by the ruling party itself given the confusion engulfing the state for a fortnight now over the issue of chief minister Hemant Soren’s disqualification. UPA…
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Jharkhand Congress MLAs also got Rs 75 lakhs, along with 49 lakhs: Bengal CID
Kolkata: The officials of West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is probing the cash haul case concerning three Jharkhand Congress legislators claimed before the Calcutta High Court that two days prior to the recovery of Rs 49 lakh cash from the SUV of Jamtara MLA Irfan Ansari, two among the arrested three had got…
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Was Irfan assigned to be ‘Shinde’ in Jharkhand Congress?
Kolkata: Since the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikash Agadi government fell in Maharashtra, it was assumed that Jharkhand would be next in line. Recovery of large amount of cash from Jharkhand’s three Indian National Congress legislators is believed to be part of this conspiracy to topple the Hemant Soren government. Three legislators, Irfan Ansari, Rajesh Kachchap…
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Jharkhand Becomes Third Indian State To Bring Legislation Against Mob Lynching
Ranchi: The list of mob lynching victims is long in Jharkhand. From 12-year-old Imtiyaz Khan, young Tabrez Ansari to middle-aged Alimuddin Ansari all kinds of people become a victim of it. And it is not that only Muslims were targeted, Tribals and Dalits were also lynched for one of the other reasons. One Gupta family in…
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Wife of Tabrez Ansari, whose lynching case was raised at the UN, seeks justice from Jharkhand govt
Ranchi: Jharkhand, which had witnessed around 30 mob lynchings between 2016 and 2020, is again witnessing a rise. Within a week two people got killed by lynching. On March 14, a 27-year-old man was beaten to death in the state capital, Ranchi. Amid these, Shaishta Perween, wife of Tabrez Ansari, who was beaten to death…