GUWAHATI, June 4: The Council of Ministers of the Government of Assam will be expanded with 12 newly-elected MLAs to take oath during a ceremony here on Friday afternoon.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma informed that 12 legislators will be inducted into the state Cabinet, with four new faces, all from the BJP.
Among the four new inductees in the Sarma-led Cabinet are Nilima Devi, MLA from Mangaldai Assembly constituency in Darrang district. The other three are former Assam Assembly Speaker and Tamulpur MLA, Biswajit Daimary; Thowra MLA Sushanta Borgohain and Golakganj MLA, Ashwini Ray Sarkar.
The other MLAs to be inducted in the Cabinet include former ministers, Ashok Singhal, Bimal Borah, Jayanta Malla Baruah, Kaushik Rai, Keshab Mahanta, Krishnendu Paul, Pijush Hazarika and Ranoj Pegu.
The legislators to take oath on Friday include representatives from Upper/Central Assam, Lower Assam and Barak Valley.
The chief minister had on Sunday informed that the state Cabinet expansion would take place on June 5.
The announcement came less than a month after Sarma took over as chief minister for the second consecutive term following the NDA’s landslide victory in the Assam Assembly elections.
The ministry was sworn in on May 12, with Sarma, and four ministers taking oath in the presence of the Prime Minister, Union home minister and several other Union ministers and chief ministers of the Northeast and other NDA-ruled states of the country.
