Non-tribal CM: Turning Point for Jharkhand By Deepak Parvatiyar December 30, 2014 The appointment of Raghubar Das by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the first ever non-tribal chief minister of Jharkhand reflects the truth about the mineral rich state – it was never a tribal-dominated state that it was made out to be since its creation. Jharkhand has a Majority Non-Tribal Population The idea behind the creation of the state was self-determination of tribals, yet when the state was created on 15thNovember 2000, the demography did not match the purpose. Instead of forming a state by including tribal dominated districts of Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand was carved out of just one state, Bihar with a highly disproportionate tribal population, comprising just 24 per cent of the total population. While the resulting fissures in the Jharkhand society was reflected in repeated fractured verdicts, the political parties’ tribal fi
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