On Thursday, Hemant Soren will be sworn in as Jharkhand's chief minister for the fourth time by himself.

 At a later time, his cabinet colleagues will be sworn in.

On Thursday, Hemant Soren will take the oath of office as Jharkhand's fourth chief minister; his cabinet colleagues will be sworn in later.

According to Keshav Mahato "Kamlesh," head of the Jharkhand Congress, Soren will be taking the oath by himself at Ranchi's Morabadi Ground.

The remaining cabinet positions would be sworn in at a later time. "The chief minister himself sent us this message," Mahato stated.

The senior Congress official added that the names of MLAs from the Congress quota for the ministerial posts would shortly be decided by the AICC high command.

He seemed not to know how many ministers were included in the Congress quota.

Senior JMM leaders did, however, affirm that the number of cabinet seats will be determined using the 2019 methodology from the previous term.

Hemant Soren would choose who would get cabinet berths, but the numbers "are probably going to be the same as the previous term, with one ministerial berth for every five MLAs." According to this model, the RJD will receive one ministerial position, the Congress four, and the JMM six.Since joining the coalition this election, the CPI-ML has not yet submitted a request for a ministerial berth, and a slot will be made available to them upon request," a senior JMM MLA who attended the ruling coalition meeting in Ranchi earlier on Sunday told The Telegraph.

On November 29, the day following the swearing-in ceremony, the CPI-ML will hold a meeting of its standing committee to decide whether it would join the government or support it from the outside.

The Supreme Court has mandated that the number of cabinet members cannot exceed 15% of the total number of MPs or MLAs.With 81 members in the Jharkhand Assembly, the cabinet can have up to 12 people, including the chief minister.

AICC senior officials are reportedly negotiating with a number of recently elected Congress MLAs in Delhi to get their names included to the list of ministerial berths.

With the exception of Lohardaga MLA Rameshwar Oraon, Pakur MLA Nishat Alam (wife of former cabinet minister Alamgir Alam, who is in judicial custody after being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on money laundering accusations), and Bokaro MLA Shweta Singh, practically all of the Congress MLAs are reportedly in Delhi.

In the recently ended Assembly elections, Congress gained 16 seats, essentially replicating its 2019 record.

The front-runners for ministerial berths in the JMM quota are Sahibganj MLA M.T. Raja, Chaibasa MLA Deepak Birua, Ghatshila MLA Ramdas Soren, Giridih MLA Sudivya Kumar "Sonu," Jama MLA Louis Marandi (who defected from the BJP to the JMM before the elections), and Tundi MLA Mathura Mahato.

Up to the time this report was filed, frantic parleys were being held in the RJD state office in Ranchi for the solitary ministerial position.Sanjay Prasad Yadav (Godda), Naresh Prasad Singh (Bishrampur), Sanjay Kumar Singh Yadav (Hussainabad), and former cabinet minister Suresh Paswan, who has already been chosen by the party to be the RJD legislative party leader in the Assembly, are the four RJD MLAs in the new Assembly.

Along with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Tejashwi, Arvind Kejriwal, SP leader Akhilesh Yadav, Naveen Patnaik, CPI-ML national general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, senior advocate Kapil Sibal, and Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, nearly all of the state chief ministers who are not part of the BJP (INDIA bloc) will be present at the swearing-in ceremony, which is set for Thursday at 4 p.m.