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Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren won a trust vote tabled in the state assembly on Monday, after alleging that the opposition BJP’s attempt to poach MLAs prompted the move. BJP legislators staged a walk out in protest.
The ruling coalition has 49 MLAs in the 81-member assembly in which the majority mark is 41. The JMM, the largest party, has 30 MLAs, the Congress 18, and Tejashwi Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has one.
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