Salkhan Soren was an Indian politician and a prominent leader in movement for separate state of Jharkhand.
Soren was a member of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly from the Gandey constituency in Giridih district in 1985, 1990, 2000 and 2005.
[6] He subsequently ran from the same constituency in the 1990 Bihar Legislative Assembly election and won once again.
He received 35,375 votes and won a seat in the Legislative Assembly by defeating his closest competitor, Laxman Swarnkar of the Bharatiya Janata Party, with a margin of 8,918 votes.
[8] In the 2005 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election, Salkhan once again ran as a Jharkhand Mukti Morcha candidate in the Gandey Assembly constituency.