Hemant Soren, the youngest chief minister of Jharkhand, has a long and successful political career. Born in 1975, he debuted as a Rajya Sabha member in 2009 and later resigned from the Upper House of Parliament to take up the post of deputy chief minister in the BJP-led Arjun Munda government. After the collapse of the BJP-JMM government, Soren took charge of the state in 2013 with the support of the Congress and the RJD.
