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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Himanta Biswa Sarma who is set to be the next chief minister of Assam is greeted by outgoing chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, right in Guwahati.
BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma will be sworn in as chief minister of Assam at the Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra here on Monday. Governor Jagdish Mukhi invited him to be sworn in after Sarma met him Sunday.
Sarma, who was elected leader of both the BJP and NDA Legislature Party earlier in the day, had called on the Governor at Raj Bhawan and submitted a list of elected legislators owing allegiance to the NDA.
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If the General Election were to be held now, the BJP will be in for a rude shock. This is the biggest takeaway from the results of the Assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, and the panchayat polls in Uttar Pradesh. The Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party have done pretty well in the heartland, while anti-BJP satraps routed the saffron party in non-Hindi-speaking states. Assam is an exception, of course, but it is only an exception. And even this exception has a lot to do with the politics of religious identity, but more about it later.
Hope soars for WW2 airport in Assam
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Commercial flight starts from Rupsi in Dhubri
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The commercial flight that touched down at Rupsi airport, 38 years after the last one was operated. | Photo Credit:
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Commercial flight starts from Rupsi in Dhubri
An airport built for warplanes in 1939 took commercial wings on Saturday, heralding the best of times for western Assam’s Dhubri district during the worst of times.
Rupsi airport near Gauripur, about 15 km from district headquarters Dhubri, was one of South Asia’s largest airports with a 1.8 km runway used by Allied aircraft for supplying arms, manpower and ammunition to forces in Burma and China during World War II. Commercial flights were allowed later.
Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party created history in the north eastern Indian state of Assam by becoming the first non-Congress party to win two successive terms in the state assembly elections there.
Staving off a spirited fightback from its main challenger Congress, the saffron party, along with its regional allies like Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), won 75 out of the total 126 seats, 11 less than the previous assembly elections five years ago. The Congress-led 10-party alliance including All India United Democratic Front (AIDUF) of perfume baron Badruddin Ajmal, finished runners up with a total of 50 seats this time. The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, which did not have AIDUF in it in 2016 but had Left parties, got 26 seats in the 2016 poll.
Assam’s new assembly in 30 charts: Fewer women, more Muslims – and more crorepatis
Assam’s new assembly in 30 charts: Fewer women, more Muslims – and more crorepatis
Is today’s political class in Assam different from the past, in terms of caste, religion, gender and other socio-demographic variables? 5 hours ago Asom Gana Parishad President Atul Bora and his supporters celebrate their party s good showing in the Assam polls on May 2. | PTI
When the Bharatiya Janata Party took power in Assam in 2016, it deeply shaped the politics of that state. In this article, we ask whether the rise of the BJP has brought any changes to the sociological composition of the state assembly. Is today’s political class in Assam different from the past, in terms of caste, religion, gender and other socio-demographic variables?