Ranchi: JMM working president Hemant Soren was on Tuesday formally elected the JMM legislature party leader, a party source said here.
Soren, who was projected as the chief ministerial candidate of the JMM-Congress-RJD alliance, is likely to stake claim tonight, a JMM release said.
A joint meeting with pre-poll allies the Congress and RJD will meet around 7 p.m. at the same place and Hemant Soren will also call on Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) president, Babulal Marandi, party sources said.
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Our party working president Hemant Soren has been unanimously elected as the legislature party leader and he will call on the Governor around 8 p.m., JMM general secretary Suprio Bhattacharya said after Hemant Soren was formally elected in a meeting of the newly elected JMM MLAs held in the residence of the party president Shibu Soren.