Himanta Sarma expands Assam Cupboard, balances new faces and loyalists, teams and areas | India Information
4 min learnGuwahatiJun 5, 2026 09:36 PM IST
Twelve new ministers took the oath of workplace in Assam Friday as Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma carried out his Cupboard growth, taking the energy of his new ministry to 17.
The Himanta Cupboard has a number of new faceseven because it continues to accommodate outstanding former Congress leaders who had adopted Sarma into the BJP some years in the past.
The senior-most amongst these ex-Congress leaders within the Himanta ministry 2.0 is Ajanta Neog, who had been sworn in with Sarma final month.
Pijush Hazarika and Jayanta Malla Baruah, each Sarma loyalists who had been outstanding members of his final ministry, had been inducted into the Council of Ministers Friday. Each of them had been first-time MLAs once they give up the Congress and joined the BJP quickly after Sarma’s swap to the BJP in 2015, with each happening to turn out to be Cupboard ministers.
One of many entrants into the Council of Ministers, Sushanta Borgohain, has the same trajectory. He too was a first-time MLA with the Congress when Sarma left it, however he went on to stay with the celebration for an additional six years. In 2021, quickly after he was elected on a Congress ticket, he defected to the BJP. He was subsequently elected from the identical seat on a BJP ticket later that 12 months.
One of many new faces within the ministry is Biswajit Daimary, who was the Speaker within the earlier Meeting. Daimary is the BJP’s senior-most chief from the Bodo neighborhood, which is Assam’s single largest tribal group. A former Rajya Sabha MP and a long-time member of the Bodoland Folks’s Entrance (BPF), he had joined the BJP in 2020, which gave the celebration a outstanding face within the Bodoland area.
Ranoj Pegu, who was the Minister of Schooling and Welfare of Plain Tribes & Backward Courses (non-BTC) within the earlier Himanta-led authorities, has additionally been made a minister now. A former Chief Government Member of the Mising Autonomous Council, Pegu is a outstanding chief from the Mising neighborhood, one other outstanding tribal neighborhood within the state.
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Nonetheless, the expanded Himanta ministry doesn’t have illustration from the Karbi and Dimasa tribes from the massive hill districts of Central Assam.
It consists of two ministers from Southern Assam’s Barak Valley, Krishnendu Paul and Kaushik Rai, who had been each ministers within the final BJP authorities. Ashwini Roy Sarkar, a frontrunner from the Koch Rajbongshi neighborhood from Dhubri district, is a brand new entrant into the ministry. The opposite new Cupboard face, who was sworn in final month, is likely one of the BJP’s senior-most leaders within the state, Rameshwar Teli, a tea-tribe chief who had beforehand been
Union Minister of State for Meals Processing Industries after which dealt with the Petroleum and Pure Fuel portfolio within the Narendra Modi-led NDA authorities on the Centre.
One more new face within the Himanta Cupboard is first time MLA Nilima Devi, who has been elected from the Mangaldai seat. The president of the Assam Pradesh BJP Mahila Morcha, Nilima, and Ajanta Neog are the one ladies within the Cupboard.
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Different outstanding faces from the earlier Himanta ministry who had been sworn in Friday embrace senior Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) chief Keshab Mahanta, who has joined his celebration colleague Atul Bora within the Cupboard. Additionally they embrace Ashok Singhal, a senior BJP chief and a outstanding member of the final ministry, who additionally courted controversies for his polarising posts on social media.
Charan Boro, the BPF’s lone minister, had been sworn in final month with Sarma.
The 17-member Himanta Cupboard has thus 13 BJP ministers with the celebration’s allies AGP and BPF having two ministers and one, respectively.
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