Basant Soren

Basant Soren is an Indian Politician and a member of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha political party. He is the current cabinet minister for ministry of roads & buildings and construction & water resources in Government of Jharkhand and a member of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly from Dumka constituency.

Basant Soren is the younger son of JMM president Shibu Soren and younger brother of former CM Hemant Soren.

Political Career

Basant contested in the Rajya Sabha elections in 2016 as JMM candidate and lost. He contested in a 2020 by- election held for Dumka Assembly as a JMM candidate and defeated his nearest BJP rival Louis Marandi by a margin of 6,842 votes. Basant Soren secured 80,552 votes and Louis Marandi got 73,717 votes.

Basant Soren took seat as road & buildings construction and water resources minister in the Champai Soren-led government in Jharkhand on 16 February 2024.

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1. Shibu Soren
2. Hemant Soren
3. Champai Soren ministry
4. Durga Soren
5. Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
6. Dumka Lok Sabha constituency
7. 5th Jharkhand Assembly
8. Mahesh Poddar
9. 2019 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election
10. Dumka Assembly constituency
11. 2020 elections in India
12. Dumka
13. Dumka district
14. List of people from Jharkhand
15. Sikaripara Assembly constituency
16. List of members of the 1st Lok Sabha
17. Hemant
18. Political families of India
19. List of Lok Sabha members from West Bengal
20. List of members of the 7th Lok Sabha