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Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
Leader	Shibu Soren
Headquarters	Bariatu Road, Ranchi-834008
Ideology	Regionalism
Alliance	National Democratic Alliance
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Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (झारखंड मुक्ति मोर्चा) (English: Jharkhand Liberation Front) is a political party in India. It has a strength of 5 in the 14th Lok Sabha. 4 of its MPs are from Jharkhand. Shibu Soren is the president of JMM. JMM is also an influential political party in neighbouring states of Orissa, West Bengal.

The party was officially created on the birthday of Birsa Munda,^[1] the 19th century Hindu spiritual and militant hero of Jharkhand that fought the British ruling in Jharkhand. The State of Jharkhand also came into existence on Birsa Munda's birthday in 2000.^[2]

At the 2005 Jharkhand state assembly elections, the JMM took second place and received 17 of the 81 seats. It supports the government of Independent Chief Minister Madhu Koda which was formed in 2006. It continues to be an active part of the United Progressive Alliance. It has had its fair share of controvoersies when its MPs were involved in the bribery scam during the Rao Government and the fiasco in early 2005 about the Chief Minister of Jharkhand. Recently, one of its MPs was assassinated by Naxalites. After the loss to Bangladesh in 2007 Cricket World Cup, the house that Dhoni was constructing in his home-town Ranchi was vandalized and damaged by political activists of JMM ^[3]

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• Soren stakes claim to form Jharkhand government - TCN News