Hemant Soren will soon resign as Jharkhand Chief Minister and his wife Kalpana will take over, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey has claimed after a Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) MLA resigned from the Assembly, citing personal reasons.
Sarfaraz Ahmed, JMM MLA from Gandey who resigned from the membership which was accepted in no time, told NDTV that he resigned not due to bitterness but to strengthen the party, coalition and also his leader Chief Minister Hemant Soren.
Sources say Mr Soren fears that the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing a corruption case against the Chief Minister, may arrest him. The JMM executive president, the sources claimed, has planned to hand over the baton to his wife.