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Amid the political turmoil and suspense over the continuation of the Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren as an MLA, the brother of the CM and MLA from Dumka constituency-- Basant Soren has
given a strange statement regarding his visit to Delhi. In the video which is going viral, Basant Soren said that he went to Delhi to buy his undergarments. Speaking to reporters about the
political turmoil in Jharkhand, the JMM leader on Wednesday, said that there was a bit of uproar over but everything appears to have settled now. When he was asked about his visit to Delhi,
Basant Soren said, "Yes, I went there. I had run out of undergarments, so I went to Delhi to purchase them." Immediately after this, the JMM leader was questioned whether he
purchases his undergarment from Delhi, he said, "Yes, I get them from there." Notably, Basant Soren on Wednesday visited his constituency-- Dumka for the first time after the
brutal killing of two teenage girls in two separate incidents in Dumka. Soren in his visit to his constituency assured to give the job to the Dumka immolation case victim's (Ankita)
elder sister a job and directed the SDO to collect all the required documents for that. Reacting to Basant Soren's statement that he goes to Delhi to buy undergarments, the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) leader and MP from Jharkhand's Godda constituency, Nishikant Soren took a jibe at the JMM leader and said, "Shibu Soren, the leader of the poor and tribals, i.e.
Guru Ji's son, now comes to Delhi from Dumka to buy undergarments." Jharkhand BJP MLA Bhanu Pratap Shahi too to his Twitter and said, "When the tribal daughter and sister of
Dumka were murdered, the MLA there, Basant Soren ji, the beloved brother of Chief Minister Hemant Soren, was busy in Delhi buying undergarments instead of meeting those families." It is
pertinent to mention that a minor tribal girl in Jharkhand’s Dumka was allegedly raped and murdered and her body was found hanging from a tree in a field in the district. “The accused,
identified as Arman Ansari, has been arrested. He works as a construction worker,” Superintendent of Police Ambar Lakra told PTI In a separate incident, earlier on August 23, a girl from
Jharkhand’s Dumka district was set on fire by a person after she did not reciprocate his proposal in Jharkhand’s Dumka district. The girl succumbed to her burn injuries while, the accused,
identified as Shahrukh was arrested for allegedly pouring petrol on the woman from outside the window of her room and setting her on fire when she was sleeping