Jharkhand, Hemant Soren

One of the Cabinet decisions was the formation of a panel to assess the situation of the "marginalised" tea tribes in Assam.
A recent ruling by a nine-judge Supreme Court bench affirmed the state's right to collect its mining and royalty dues.
Jharkhand got its first Chief Minister in Babulal Marandi, who served from November 2000 to March 2003. He was from the BJP.