Live News Update 2023: Jagarnath Mahato's wife will become minister, oath tomorrow
Latest Updated 02/07/2023: Former Education Minister of Jharkhand Late. Baby Devi, wife of Jagarnath Mahto, will take oath as minister on 3 July. This function will be held at Raj Bhavan at 12 noon. Governor CP Radhakrishnan will administer the oath of office to Baby Devi. Ministers, MLAs, MPs and officials including Chief Minister Hemant Soren will be present on this occasion. This has been confirmed by JMM Central Committee member Vinod Pandey.
After the death of Education Minister Jagarnath Mahato, one post of the minister was lying vacant. Jagarnath Mahato's wife is being made a minister even before the Dumri by-election. The by-election is to be held on the Dumri seat, which fell vacant after the death of Jagarnath Mahato. JMM will fight Baby Devi from here.
Earlier, after the death of the then minister Haji Hussain Ansari, his son Hafizul Hasan was administered the oath of office even before the Madhupur by-election. JMM made him a candidate in the Madhupur by-election, in which he won. The government is going to administer the oath of office to Baby Devi before the by-election to repeat the result of Madhupur in Dumri. After the demise of Jagarnath Mahato, the name of Baby Devi and sometimes son Akhilesh kept being discussed for the minister. In the end, JMM has decided to administer the oath of office to Baby Devi and contest the by-elections.