What is Hemant Soren's game plan post disqualification? 

Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren has kept plans ready in the event of being disqualified as a member of the state assembly in the office of profit case and also if he is debarred from contesting elections in the immediate future.

Soren, who heads the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), has prepared 'Plan A" and 'Plan B' to deal with the emerging situation.

As part of 'Plan A', he is likely to resign and then take oath again as the chief minister if he has to give up the post following the Election Commission's recommendation to a complaint forwarded by state governor Ramesh Bais.

In that case, he will have to get re-elected to the assembly within six months of assuming the post.

If he is also debarred from contesting the elections, Soren as part of his 'Plan B' is likely to name his wife the chief minister and approach the court, citing an example of late AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa.

She had resigned following her conviction in the disproportionate assets case in September 2014.

Jayalalithaa then appointed her close confidante O Panneerselvam as the chief minister and approached the Karnataka high court, which subsequently acquitted her in the case. Jayalalithaa returned as the chief minister in May 2015 with Panneerselvam readily vacating the chair for her.

Soren has kept ready a battery of lawyers to seek a stay on the Election Commission's order.

It is not known yet what the Election Commission had recommended and why the governor sent it back seeking some clarification.

As of now, everything seems to be in the realm of speculation.

But Soren has decided not to let the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) take advantage of the crisis situation in the state.

It has also been decided that the legislators belonging to the JMM and the Congress will not be shifted out of Jharkhand for the time being.

But Soren has been offered full support by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, her Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) boss Sharad Pawar.

He can shift the legislators of his party's and those of the alliance partners to either West Bengal, Bihar, Telangana, Chhattisgarh or Rajasthan.