India, Aug. 4 -- JMM supremo and former Jharkhand chief minister Shibu Soren passed away, his son Hemant Soren announced on Monday. The JMM leader was 81.

"Respected Dishom Guruji has left us all. Today, I feel completely empty," Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren said in a post on X.

Soren was on ventilator support and was receiving treatment at Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital for over a month. He was hospitalised in the last week of June with a kidney-related issue.

81-year-old Shibu had been receiving regular treatment at the hospital for an extended period. He had been the leader of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha for the last 38 years and was also recognised as the party's founding patron.

Born on January 11, 1944, in Ramgarh distri...