Shibu Soren

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**Shibu Soren**

Born	11 January 1944 Hazaribagh, Jharkhand
Residence	Bokaro
Office	MP
Constituency	Dumka
Political party	JMM
Spouse	Roopi Soren
Children	3 sons and 1 daughter
As of 25 September 2006 Source: [1]

Shibu Soren (born 11 January 1944) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Dumka constituency of Jharkhand and is a member of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) political party. He is the chief of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha. He is the first Union Minister of the Government of India to be found guilty of involvement in a murder.

He was born in Nemra village of Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand States and territories of India. He completed his schooling from the same district. After schooling, he got married and decided to work with his father who was a farmer. He has three sons and a daughter.

He started his political career in the early 1970s and rose to become a tribal leader. On 23 January 1975, he allegedly led a mob that attacked the Muslim-dominated Chirudih village in Jamtara district in a campaign to drive away "outsiders", a term used to describe non-tribals. Ten people including nine Muslims were killed in the attack. Along with sixty eight others, he was charged for murder. He lost his first Lok Sabha election in 1977. He was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1980. In 1986, an arrest warrant was issued against him. He was subsequently elected to the Lok Sabha in 1989, 1991 and 1996 as well. In 2002, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha with the help of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He won the Dumka Lok Sabha seat in a by-election the same year and resigned his Rajya Sabha seat. He was re-elected in 2004.

He became the Union Coal Minister in the Manmohan Singh government (2004–2009), but was asked to resign following an arrest warrant in his name in a thirty year old case of killing 11 people in Chirrudih. After the warrant was issued, he initially went underground. He resigned on 24 July 2004. He is a member of the Lok Sabha representing Dumka, Jharkhand elected for the sixth time to the Lok Sabha in 2004. He was re-inducted into the Union Cabinet and given back the coal ministry on 27 November 2004.

On 2 March 2005, he was invited to form the government in Jharkhand by the Governor of Jharkhand, Syed Sibtey Razi and appointed as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand. He resigned on 11 March following his failure to obtain a vote of confidence in the assembly.

[edit] Life imprisonment

On 28 November 2006, Soren was found guilty of murder in the twelve year old case of the kidnapping, sodomizing and then killing his former personal secretary Shashinath Jha. Soren has resigned from his post of Union Minister for Coal after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanded that he do so in the wake of the verdict. This is the first case of a Union Minister of the Government of India being found guilty of involvement in a murder. On 5 December 2006, Shibu Soren was sentenced to life imprisonment.