08 January,2009 03:32 PM IST | | PTI
Jharkhand chief minister Shibu Soren, bidding to enter the state Assembly, on Thursday faced the ignominy of losing the by-election when Jharkhand Party candidate Gopal Krishna Patar defeated him by about 8,000 votes from the Tamar Assembly seat.
The by-poll was held on January 3, the counting for which was taken up today.
Soren, who assumed charge on August 27, required to be elected to the Assembly within six months from that date which was to end on February 27 next.
The Tamar seat fell vacant after JD(U) legislature party leader Ramesh Singh Munda was gunned down on July 9 last year by suspected Maoists.
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With Patar winning the by-elections, the Jharkhand Party increased its tally to two - the other member being its president Enos Ekka, who was sacked by the chief minister on December 18 last.
Though the chief minister cited a vigilance FIR against Ekka, Ekka had claimed that he faced the axe for defying Soren's request to withdraw Patar from the fray.
