‘A grassroots leader’: PM Modi's tribute to Shibu Soren, former Jharkhand CM

Shibu Soren, who died at the age of 81, was on ventilator support for over a month

Updated on: Aug 4, 2025, 10:34:11 IST

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Remembering former Jharkhand chief minister Shibu Soren as a mass leader, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was pained at his death on Monday.

Shibu Soren at Parliament House in New Delhi in 2011. He died on Monday, August 4, 2025. (PTI File)

He said, in a post on X, that Shibu Soren, a former union minister, was “a grassroots leader who rose through the ranks of public life with unwavering dedication to the people”.

“He was particularly passionate about empowering tribal communities, the poor and downtrodden,” Modi's post further said.

Shibu Soren, 81, was on ventilator support for over a month while receiving treatment at Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. He was hospitalised in the last week of June with a kidney-related issue.

The news of his death was shared by his son Hemant Soren, who is chief minister of Jharkhand at present.

A founder of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, a movement for a separate state to be carved out of Bihar, he became Jharkhand CM thrice but could not complete any of the terms. He remained in the Rajya Sabha too, and represented the Dumka seat in the Lok Sabha multiple times. He was union minister for coal in Manmohan Singh's UPA government.

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