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Live updates: Himanta Biswa Sarma takes oath as Assam chief minister
Live updates: Himanta Biswa Sarma takes oath as Assam chief minister
Himanta Biswa Sarma, the charioteer of BJP s stride in the Northeast is all set to swear in as the 15th chief minister of Assam. Meanwhile, in West Bengal, the newly-elected cabinet of chief minister .Read More
THE TIMES OF INDIA | May 10, 2021, 13:34:53 IST
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AIADMK legislature party has elected former chief minister and party joint coordinator Edappadi K Palaniswami as Leader of Opposition (LoP).
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BJP Nandigram MLA Suvendu Adhikari to be Leader of Opposition (LoP) in West Bengal Vidhan Sabha. Adhikari has been elected as BJP legislature party leader in Bengal.
GUWAHATI: When Himanta Biswa Sarma is sworn-in as Assam’s 15th CM on Monday, he will be the seventh ex-student of northeast’s premier education institute, Cotton University (formerly Cotton College) to occupy the post of chief minister of the state.
The other ex-Cottonians who went on to become the chief minister include the state’s first CM Gopinath Bordoloi, Mahendra Mohan Chowdhury, Sarat Chandra Sinha, Jogendra Nath Hazarika, Hiteswar Saikia and Bhumidhar Barman.
Assam’s first premier in pre-Independence period, Saiyid Muhammad Saadulla, also studied at Cotton College, which was set up in 1901 by Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton, then chief commissioner of Assam. The college was upgraded to a university in 2017 by then education minister, who happens to be Himanta Biswa Sarma himself.