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Two days after coming out of jail on June 28, Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, in his first public address in Bhoginath, gave the call to uproot a “feudal” Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and restore the rule of tribals and the original inhabitants of Jharkhand in the state. The emotive call was made on Hul Diwas, observed to commemorate the anniversary of an 1855 tribal rebellion, or Hul, against the British, led by tribal icons Sido and Kanhu of Bhognadih, which is in his Barhait assembly seat. The timing and the location were not a coincidence. Soren was delivering a larger message about how “feudal lords” have for generations tormented aspirational tribals. And he connected the troubles he had faced at the hands of the BJP government at the Centre — from a disqualification plea filed with governor to jail for five months in a corruption case — with that narrative. “For me, for adivasis (tribals) and moolvasis (original inhabitants) of the state, Hul Diwas is an inspiration. Due to the situation in the country today, the INDIA bloc has decided to launch a revolution. We have vowed to uproot these feudal people (BJP) from the state and the country,” he thundered in his speech. Five months later, it turns out that the words of executive president of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) had a galvanising effect on the people; his mission to uproot the BJP has been accomplished. The JMM-led INDIA bloc swept the assembly polls on Saturday, winning a record 56 seats for a massive majority in the 81-member Jharkhand assembly. A senior JMM leader described Soren, 49, as a changed leader after coming out of incarceration in an alleged land scam case. “He became very serious in all his conversations and consultations — be it party men or the bureaucracy. It appeared he had prepared a clear election strategy when he was in jail,” said the leader who asked not to be named. Along with his demeanour, Hemant Soren look changed his look. He grew his hair long, and the spiralling locks and grey beard lent him a visage strikingly similar to that of his father, Shibu Soren, who is credited for creation of Jharkhand state from Bihar in a long and violent agitation, and for freeing tribal land from local moneylenders particularly in the Santhal Pargana region. Shibu Soren served as the state chief minister on three occasions — 10 days in 2005, 145 days in 2008 and 153 days in 2009, and Hemant became an MLA for the first time in 2009. A second JMM leader, who said this change of avatar suddenly made Hemant Soren look “older and more mature”, believes it was a boon for the party on the campaign trail. Attacking the BJP for conspiring to put him in jail before the Lok Sabha elections, Hemant often referred to it on the campaign trail — he stressed how he had aged while behind bars, and that it was all due to the BJP. A third JMM leader said that all this helped Soren build a narrative on the ground that the BJP was targeting a “home-grown” tribal leader of the only truly tribal party in India. His wife Kalpana Soren, a legislator from Gandey, made emotional appeals to further push the narrative. While Soren was in jail, his long-time associate Champai Soren was lodged as chief minister. But there were some anxious moments as Champai turned rebel once Hemant Soren came out and bail and regained his chair. “When Champai went with the BJP, Hemant Soren understood the gravity of the situation. He didn’t get personal and refrained from making even a single comment. He just cleverly included Ramdas Soren — from Kolhan division, where Champai has held a sway — into his cabinet to mitigate the impact,” the third JMM leader said. Not inconsequential, of course, were his welfare promises — the most significant among them the Maiya scheme that provides ₹ 1,000 per month to all women in the 18-50 age group (the amount would be increased to ₹ 2,500 per month from December). It ensured that, not just 27 of the 28 tribal seats, the JMM-Congress alliance also grabbed 29 seats in non-tribal areas. Soon after the last day of voting on Wednesday, a photo went viral on social media — Soren in his backyard, playing with his dog; Kalpana applying oil to his head; and an unidentified woman putting oil in hers — ostensibly to highlight both how relaxed he was and his innate groundedness. Then, as the results started to show he had won by a landslide on Saturday, a second photo of Hemant Soren and his two sons — both in school uniform, was released to complete the picture of a tribal family man who had beaten all odds. 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New York D.A. Urges Judge Not To Dismiss Donald Trump’s Hush Money Conviction, Proposes Other Sentencing OptionsEUAN MCCOLM: Sarwar wants to be our next First Minister - now might be a good time for him to start telling the voters why Click here to visit the Scotland home page for the latest news and sport By EUAN MCCOLM FOR THE SCOTTISH DAILY MAIL Published: 22:39, 10 December 2024 | Updated: 22:46, 10 December 2024 e-mail 1 View comments For the first time in living memory, the mood has lifted in SNP ranks. After a prolonged period of turmoil, Nationalist MSPs are indulging themselves with mild feelings of optimism. Brows have begun to unfurrow. Some SNP members have even been seen smiling in public. The game, they think, might not be over yet. Their spirits have been lifted by the contents of the draft Budget announced by Finance Secretary Shona Robison last week. So far as Nationalists at Holyrood are concerned, this document just might be the key, in 2026, to a fourth successive Scottish parliamentary election victory for the SNP. Ms Robison’s colleagues don’t rejoice because her draft Budget is in the best interests of Scotland. It is not. Rather, the Finance Secretary is now the toast of her colleagues because she has managed to make life difficult for the Scottish Labour Party leader Anas Sarwar. Finance Secretary Shona Robison's Budget earlier this month has made make life difficult for Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar After receiving a £3.4billion funding increase in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s first Budget, last month, the Scottish Government’s already tired attack line about ‘Westminster austerity’ finally ran out of steam. The challenge for Ms Robison was to show what she could do with a substantial sum of extra money, rather than simply to describe what she might do if only the cash was available. Inaction In the end, the Finance Secretary’s draft Budget was low on innovation. Much of the extra funding is earmarked for new pay agreements, while there is no significant planned spending on long overdue reform in the NHS or the education system. But Nationalist MSPs haven’t cared about the inaction of their government in those key areas for the past 17 and a half years, so we should not be surprised that this ongoing neglect is of no concern to them now. What matters to Nationalists at Holyrood is that two headline-grabbing announcements in Ms Robison’s draft Budget present political difficulties for Mr Sarwar. The Labour leader may wish to vote against the SNP’s Budget – and he would have many good reasons to withhold his support – but the political cost of refusing to back a plan which includes the maintenance of the winter fuel payment for pensioners and the removal of the two-child benefit cap would, I think, be too high for him to pay. Values The SNP became the dominant party of the left in Scotland by persuading former supporters of Labour that it maintained the values their party had abandoned . That accusation landed, hard. The refrain ‘I didn’t leave Labour, Labour left me’ could be heard across constituencies which had once seemed stained indelibly red. Ms Robison and First Minister John Swinney, whose fingerprints I detect on the draft Budget, have used money supplied by Labour at Westminster to make life difficult for Labour at Holyrood. This is smart, if unattractive, politics. If the SNP is to see off Labour in 2026, it will have to win back Scottish voters who got behind Sir Keir Starmer in July’s general election. The draft Budget is an attempt to do that. Over recent years, it has suited Mr Sarwar perfectly well to be seen to be close to Sir Keir. Scottish Labour leaders of the recent past may have suffered from the accusation made by SNP opponents that they were nothing more than ‘branch managers’, but the inevitability of Labour’s general election victory made a virtue of Mr Sarwar’s closeness to his boss. Now, however, while I don’t for a moment think Mr Sarwar should do anything to distance himself from the PM – unless it is politically necessary for him to do so – it is time for the Scottish Labour leader to tell us more about himself and – if he has one – his vision for Scotland. Mr Sarwar is clever and affable and, although the SNP may be back in the fight, there is a reasonable chance that he will become the next First Minister of Scotland. Scottish Labour leader Anar Sarwar must convince voters to give him a chance Click here to visit the Scotland home page for the latest news and sport Advertisement However, if the Scottish Labour leader is to achieve this ambition and break the nationalists’ political gridlock, he will have to do more than be clever and affable. For reasons of cynical political expediency, Mr Sarwar should support the SNP’s Budget. He cannot win an argument against the measures outlined by Ms Robison with the voters he will need if he is to replace John Swinney as First Minister (even if those measures are poorly thought through and largely uncosted). The Scottish Labour leader has no choice but to be reactive when it comes to the draft Budget. If he is to lead his party to victory in 2026, it’s time for him to get proactive on matters of policy. Bogged down in a police investigation and split over independence strategy, the SNP has not looked more vulnerable in two decades, yet it would be wrong to assume that the Nationalists are a spent force. Recent polling may have given Mr Swinney a net approval rating of -11 but Mr Sarwar fared worse, with -16. The Scottish Labour leader doesn’t have time to spare if he is to persuade voters to give him the chance to lead the country, yet even those closest to him struggle to describe his political vision. One ally said: ‘He’s been incredibly careful not to put a foot wrong. The party’s been disciplined and he’s been a great communicator. 'But all that said, you could also accuse us of lacking a real identity. ‘If we weren’t a viable alternative government, then it would be fine for us to just attack, attack, attack, but we need to start showing people at least the shape of a plan.’ His fear of provoking any kind of backlash left Mr Sarwar at odds with voters on the controversial issue of gender self-ID. While the majority of Scots are opposed to allowing male-bodied people access to female single-sex spaces , Mr Sarwar supported the SNP’s plan to allow just that. Since plans to allow self-ID were blocked last year by then Scottish Secretary Alister Jack, Mr Sarwar has remained conspicuously silent on the matter. Failure The Labour leader is naive if he thinks the matter of gender ideology and its impact on women’s rights won’t play a substantial part in the next Holyrood election campaign. On this – and, indeed, on a wide range of subjects – Mr Sarwar needs clear messages. The SNP’s government of Scotland since 2007 has been marked by failure after failure. All things considered, Scottish Labour should now be runaway favourites to head the next government at Holyrood. As things stand – thanks, in part, to Shona Robison’s tricksy draft Budget – Labour and the Nationalists are neck and neck in the polls. If Mr Sarwar is to change this state of affairs and take those smiles off Nationalist faces, I suggest he gets on with persuading us he’s more than merely Sir Keir’s man in the north. Anas Sarwar wishes to be Scotland’s next First Minister. This being so, it might be a good idea for him to start telling us why. SNP Share or comment on this article: EUAN MCCOLM: Sarwar wants to be our next First Minister - now might be a good time for him to start telling the voters why e-mail Add comment
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The Orlando Pride and the Washington Spirit will compete for the NWSL (National Women's Soccer League) Championship at CPKC Stadium on Saturday. The Pride is searching for its first title in franchise history, while the Spirit is looking to capture its second title. Barbra Banda and the Pride entered the playoffs as the No. 1 seed and have an overall record of 18-6-2 (60 points). Banda leads the team in goals (13) and assists (6). Trinity Rodman and the Spirit produced similar success with an 18-2-6 (56 points) record to earn the No. 2 seed. Rodman is tied for a team-high eight goals this season and is second with six assists. The Pride got the best of the Spirit with a 2-0 victory in their last meeting on Oct. 6. Soccer: All the news, scores and analysis in one place Here's everything you need to know: NWSL Championship Game: Time, TV and streaming We occasionally recommend interesting products and services. If you make a purchase by clicking one of the links, we may earn an affiliate fee. USA TODAY Network newsrooms operate independently, and this doesn’t influence our coverage.
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