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RANCHI\/NEW DELHI, 4 Aug:<\/strong> JMM founder Shibu Soren, the veteran tribal leader who played a key role in Jharkhand’s creation, breathed his last on Monday.<\/p>\n He was 81.<\/p>\n Soren was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Delhi for over a month for kidney-related problems.<\/p>\n The Jharkhand Assembly was adjourned sine die, while the state government declared a three-day state mourning following the former CM’s demise.<\/p>\n The mortal remains of the former Jharkhand chief minister will be brought to Ranchi from Delhi at around 5:30 pm on Monday, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) said.<\/p>\n \u00a0His body will be taken to his native village in Ramgarh district on Tuesday, and his last rites will be performed there, the party said.<\/p>\n Soren had been undergoing treatment at the hospital since 19 June under the care of Dr AK Bhalla, senior consultant, nephrology. Dr Bhalla said Soren was declared dead at 8:56 am.<\/p>\n “He was suffering from kidney ailments, and had suffered a stroke a month and a half back. He was on life support for the last one month,” the doctor said.<\/p>\n “Despite the best efforts of our multidisciplinary medical team, Shibu Soren passed away peacefully on 4 August, 2025, with his family by his bedside,” the hospital said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u00a0Soren had been the leader of the JMM for the past 38 years and is recognised as the party’s founding patron.<\/p>\n President Droupadi Murmu mourned the death of Soren and said that his demise is a big loss in the space of social justice.<\/p>\n She said in a post on X, “The demise of Shri Shibu Soren Ji is a big loss in the space of social justice. He championed the cause of tribal identity and the formation of the state of Jharkhand.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RANCHI\/NEW DELHI, 4 Aug: JMM founder Shibu Soren, the veteran tribal leader who played a key role in Jharkhand’s creation, breathed his last on Monday. He was 81. Soren was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Delhi for over a month for kidney-related problems. The Jharkhand Assembly was adjourned sine die, while the state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-268450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}