Himanta Biswa Sarma Swearing-in LIVE Updates: Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will take oath in the present day as the subsequent chief minister of the state after he was elected unanimously by the BJP Legislature Party, which met in Guwahati on Sunday. According to sources within the social gathering, Sarma’s identify was proposed by incumbent chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal. After the choice, Sarma thanked the folks of Assam for his or her ‘pious faith’. “With fragrance of Assam in my heart & love of my wonderful people in my veins, I offer my deepest gratitude to you all. I would not have been what I am had it not been for your pious faith in me. On this Day, I vow to work with & for each one of you with greater passion Assam,” he tweeted.
In the outcomes introduced for the 126-member Assam Assembly final Sunday, the BJP gained 60 seats whereas its alliance companions AGP acquired 9 seats and UPPL six. BJP nationwide president J P Nadda will probably be current on the oath-taking occasion.
On Saturday, Sarma and Sonowal, each contenders for the highest publish, have been in New Delhi to meet the BJP central management. Sarma visited Nadda’s residence, the place he additionally met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP basic secretary (Organisation) B L Santhosh. A sequence of conferences, lasting for greater than 4 hours, have been held with Nadda and Shah with the duo, following which Sarma mentioned that the BJP’s legislature social gathering is probably going to meet on Sunday and all questions associated to the subsequent authorities will probably be answered there. Both Sonowal and Sarma had gone collectively to Delhi on Saturday morning by a chartered flight and returned at evening together with the central observers.
