Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, wife Kalpana meet Sonia Gandhi

July 13, 2024 15:19

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren met Congress Parliamentary Party chief Sonia Gandhi in Delhi on Saturday, days after he took charge of the post again.

Accompanied by his wife Kalpana, Hemant Soren met Gandhi at her 10 Janpath residence in New Delhi.

Describing the meeting as a courtesy call, Soren said he had come to meet Gandhi as they had not met her after the Lok Sabha elections and since he came out of jail.

"Discussions for Jharkhand Assembly elections will continue...there was no discussion about polls," Soren said when asked whether the upcoming assembly polls in Jharkhand were discussed with Gandhi.

"Indians are very sensitive and tolerant. They tolerate a lot until they cannot and then they make themselves heard by voting," he told reporters after meeting Gandhi.

He also hoped that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would be granted bail soon.

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha executive president had resigned as the chief minister before his arrest on January 31 by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged land scam.

After spending around five months in prison, he secured bail and became chief minister again on July 4. -- PTI

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