Basant Soren is an Indian Politician and a member of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha political party.
He is the current cabinet minister for ministry of roads & buildings and construction & water resources in Government of Jharkhand and a member of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly from Dumka constituency.
[2] Basant contested in the Rajya Sabha elections in 2016 as JMM candidate and lost.
[3] He contested in a 2020 by- election held for Dumka Assembly as a JMM candidate and defeated his nearest BJP rival Louis Marandi by a margin of 6,842 votes.
[4][5] Basant Soren took oath as road & buildings construction and water resources minister in the Champai Soren-led government in Jharkhand on 16 February 2024.