Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah, who were supposed to attend the swearing-in, failed to make it due to bad weather conditions. However, PM Modi congratulated Raghubar Das on Twitter.
Jharkhand, which witnessed 9 governments and 3 President’s Rules in the last 14 years, got a majority government for the first time. BJP won 37 seats, while its ally AJSU Party won 5 seats. Together, they won 42 seats in the 81-member Odisha Assembly.
Nilkanth Singh Munda, Chandreswar Prasad Singh, Louis Marandi (all BJP) and Chandraprakash Choudhary (AJSU Party) were also sworn-in as cabinet ministers. Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu was present at the swearing-in ceremony.