J’Khand: JMM’s Rabindra Nath Mahato set to be become Speaker of House
Ranchi, Jan 07: The Senior Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) legislator and three time MLA Rabindra Nath Mahato, has been elected as the Speaker of state assembly on Tuesday.
Mahato is the legislator from the Nala constituency. With this he became the Speaker of the fifth State Legislative Assembly.
On Monday, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren announced that the name of Ravindra Nath Mahto has come for the Speaker's post and no other name has come either from the ruling coalition's side or the Opposition's side.
Finally, the Mahagathbandhan fixed the name of Mahto for the post of Speaker of the House.
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According
to
reports,
Mahto
filed
his
nomination
for
the
post
on
Monday.
He
has
been
elected
MLA
from
Nala
Assembly
constituency
for
the
third
time
in
2019
on
JMM
ticket.
Earlier,
in
2005
and
2014,
he
was
elected
as
MLA
from
Nala
on
the
ticket
of
JMM.
Considering Shibu Soren as his ideal, Mahto became active in the Jharkhand movement and he later started politics with the JMM.
The 2019 Jharkhand Assembly polls results were declared on December 23 of all the 81 seats, according to the Election Commission the JMM has won 30 seats, Congress 16 and BJP got 25 seats. 44-year-old JMM working president Hemant Soren sworn in as the 11th chief minister of the state.