Former Jharkhand minister & AICC member resigns from Congress : #RashtraNews #Jharkhand #minister #AICC #member #resigns #Congress Former Jharkhand minister and AICC member, Geetashree Oraon has resigned from the Congress party. "With a heavy heart and deep regret I tender my resignation from all responsibilities assigned to me by the Indian National Congress party including […]
Ranchi: Former minister of then undivided Bihar and Congress leader Bandi Oraon died at his home in Bagicha Toli on Itki Road late on Monday night from an illness. He was 90.
Oraon was survived by his son Arun Oraon, a former IPS officer and former national vice-president of BJP, and daughter-in-law Geetashree Oraon, who is a Congress leader and former state minister.
Politicians cutting across party lines paid rich tributes to Oraon, who was an IPS officer and took voluntary retirement in 1980 while he was posted as SP of Giridih to join politics. He was a four-time Congress MLA from Gumla s Sisai assembly constituency and went on to become the planning minister in then undivided Bihar in the cabinet of former chief minister Chandrashekhar Singh. Oraon also headed the Santhal Pargana Chotanagpur Area Congress Committee between 1997 and 1998.
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RANCHI: Tribal groups from Jharkhand will head for Delhi from February 25 onwards to shift their protest to the national capital to demand a separate tribal religious code in the upcoming census.
On Saturday, members of different groups under the banner of Rashtriya Adivasi Dharma Samanway Samiti (National Tribal Religion Coordination Committee), staged a daylong dharna outside the Raj Bhavan to press for the demand.
Notably, chief minister Hemant Soren, whose government had passed a resolution for a separate tribal code in the assembly last year, too, raised the demand before Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the online meeting of Niti Aayog.