Soon after the Union Cabinet in a meeting held in New Delhi on Thursday recommended revocation of President?s rule in the state, Governor MOH Farook invited BJP?s Arjun Munda to form the government in Jharkhand.
The Governor also directed Munda to prove majority on the floor of the Assembly within a week from the day he takes oath as the chief minister.
?We have given the Governor a tentative schedule. We will formally communicate to him about the venue and time of the oath-taking ceremony later,? said Munda after returning from the Raj Bhavan with his two allies?All Jharkhand Students Union?s Sudesh Mahato and JMM?s Hemant Soren.
As per the schedule, Munda will take oath on September 11 at a low-key function, inside the Raj Bhawan complex. This would be unlike previous occassions, when JMM president Shibu Soren and Independent Madhu Koda took oath at the sprawling Morahabadi Maidan in front of hundreds of their supporters.
Apart from Munda, Sudesh Mahato and Hemant will take oath as ministers with the rank of deputy CMs. Munda is expected to expand and induct nine other ministers after he undergoes the floor test, the date of which was not fixed yet.
Munda staked claim to form the government on Tuesday by handing over a letter of support signed by 45 MLAs of the BJP (18), JMM (18), AJSU (5), JD-U (2) and Independent (2) to the Governor. Since then he and JMM president shibu Soren have separately hosted dinner for these MLAs at their respective official residences.
Fourty-two-year-old Munda, who is getting the chief ministership post for the third time, will be the eighth CM in 10 years since the mineral rich state was carved out of Bihar on November 15, 2000. No CM has ever completed a full term in the state.