'Won't beg for compromise': Hemant Soren shares poem after arrest

In his first reaction after arrest, former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren shared a poem in Hindi on X.

He wrote, "Life is a great battle, I have fought every moment, I will fight every moment but I will not beg for compromise." He said that he won't accept defeat.

Soren was arrested after a marathon seven hours of grilling by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering probe into an alleged land scam.

JMM's Champai Soren has been named the new chief minister.

Earlier, the legislators gathered at Hemant Soren's residence elected the transport minister Champai Soren as the leader of the JMM legislative party with the party spokesperson Vinod Pandey saying that a consensus was reached on his name.

A legislator from the Serikela assembly constituency for more than three decades since 1991, Champai Soren is known to be a loyalist of JMM supremo Shibu Soren.

Born in November 1956 at Jilinggora village in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharsawan district, Champai Soren is a matriculate and father of seven children. He is the son of a farmer and is not related to the Hemant Soren's family.

(With PTI inputs)

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