The mortal remains of veteran tribal leader and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) co-founder Shibu Soren, fondly known as ‘Dishom Guru’, was laid to rest with full state honours at his ancestral village Nemra in Ramgarh district on Tuesday (August 5, 2025).

Guruji, as he was popularly known, breathed his last at a private hospital in Delhi on Monday and tall political figures and leaders like President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage to the departed soul there.

Before his last rites, his body was kept inside his official residence and taken to the Jharkhand Assembly premises where several people and leaders paid their last respects at about 9 am.He was given gun salute by the Jharkhand armed police.

Then, Guruji’s mortal remains were placed on a decorated vehicle, seated by his two sons- younger one Basant Soren and elder son Hemant Soren who is the Chief Minister of Jharkhand.

On the way to the cremation site in Nemra, 90 km from Ranchi, the flower-packed hearse, followed by a cavalcade of vehicles, each carrying either security personnel or VVIPs, moved in a procession.

A beeline of vehicles followed the carcade. People had lined up both sides of the highway to pay their last respects as the hearse carrying his body was being taken to his ancestral village, Nemra from the state assembly in Ranchi.

The carcade was greeted with chants of 'Guruji amar rahe' (long live Guruji).

Among prominent persons who arrived from far flung areas of the country included the Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh, TMC MP Shatabdi Roy, Purnea MP Pappu Yadav, among others.

Also, BJP leader and Union ministers Jual Oram, Annapurna Devi and Sanjay Seth, and state ministers Irfan Ansari, Dipika Pandey Singh, Shilpi Neha Tirkey and many legislators, bureaucrats, including DGP Anurag Gupta and Principal Secretary to the CM, Avinash Kumar, JMM workers and common people paid their tributes on the assembly complex.

Shibu Soren had been the leader of the JMM for the past 38 years.

Shibu Soren's son and Chief Minister Hemant Soren, clad in a white kurta-pyjama, and a traditional tribal 'gamcha' on his shoulders, was seen weeping,sitting on the vehicle with folded hands.

His demise marks the end of a defining political era, one that brought the tribal movement from the grassroots of Jharkhand to the forefront of national politics.

A sombre milieu prevailed in Nemra as people from near and far thronged the cremation site to have a last glimpse of former chief minister Shibu Soren.