Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren was brought back to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) after the Champai Soren-led Jharkhand government won the Trust Vote in the State Assembly on Monday.
The motion of confidence in the Jharkhand government, headed by Chief Minister Champai Soren, was approved by the state Assembly on Monday.
With a 47:29 majority, the coalition government prevailed in the floor test.
The House members who supported and opposed the motion were asked to take their seats one by one by Assembly Speaker Rabindra Nath Mahato.
“(A total of) 47 votes have been received in favour of the motion. There were 29 votes against the motion. Thus, this House passes the Trust Vote,” the Speaker said before adjourning the House till 11 am on Tuesday.
In the 81-member assembly, the halfway mark for a majority is 41.
The allied Congress, with 17 members, and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, with 29 seats, were sure they would easily pass the Trust Vote.
Hemant Soren, the former chief minister of Jharkhand who was taken into custody by the Directorate of Enforcement in connection with a purported land fraud, was also in attendance during the floor test in the Assembly. Soren was permitted to vote in the trust ballot by a Ranchi special court.
Hemant Soren, a debate participant, claimed that his detention is only one instance of the persecutors that Dalits and tribal people experience in society.
“If you look back at the oppression faced by adivasis, backward, Dalits and minorities, it has been brought forward in multiple ways in different forms. January 31 is an example of this oppression,” he said.
Lashing out at the Bharatiya Janata Party, the former Chief Minister said, “I do not understand why the ruling (central) government has so much hatred towards adivasis and dalits…They don’t hesitate to say that we should remain in jungles. If we come out of jungle their graves will get dirty. They think that we are untouchables.”
Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren while setting off the debate on the trust motion said that the Centre is misusing the agencies.
“The one who is ruling the Central government misused agencies. In 2019, Hemant got the mandate. Such a Chief Minister is arrested in a land scam case,” the Chief Minister said supporting his predecessor.