Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Monday took oath as the representative of Barhait constituency, one of the two seats that the JMM leader won in the just-concluded assembly elections.
Soren has decided to quit the Dumka seat, a senior official of the Jharkhand Assembly Secretariat told PTI.
"The chief minister had given in writing to the pro-tem speaker that he will take oath as a representative of Barhait," he said.
Pro-tem Speaker Stephen Marandi administered the oath to Soren as a member of the 81-member House on the first day of the three-day session.
Soren had won from the Barhait seat in the 2014 assembly polls, too, but lost from Dumka.
Three of his ministers -- Alamgir Alam, Rameshwar Oraon (both from Congress) and Satyanand Bhokta (RJD) also took oath.
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