When Himanta Biswa Sarma was sworn in because the fifteenth Chief Minister of Assam on Monday, he joined the league of six different alumni of Cotton University, a premier academic establishment of the Northeastern area, who occupied the state’s high government publish. The state’s first chief minister, Bharat Ratna awardee Gopinath Bordoloi, was additionally a pupil of Cotton College in Guwahati, which grew to become a college in 2011.
The different 5 chief ministers who have been alumni of the school have been Mahendra Mohan Chowdhury, Sarat Chandra Sinha, Jogendra Nath Hazarika, Hiteswar Saikia and Bhumidhar Barman. The first Premier of Assam Province earlier than Independence, Sir Syed Muhammad Saadulla, was additionally a pupil of Cotton College arrange in 1901 by Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton, the then Chief Commissioner of Assam.
Former Nagaland Chief Minister P. Shilu Ao was additionally a pupil of Cotton College. Sarma was the overall secretary of the Cotton College Students’ Union in 1992. In that 12 months, it grew to become a Centre of Excellence as declared by then President Shankar Dayal Sharma paving the way in which for it to turn into a post-graduate school.
It was upgraded to a college in 2011 as Cotton College State University by an Assam Government Act. Cotton College throughout its 119 years of existence has nurtured a few of the greatest minds within the state.
They embody singer, lyricist, and filmmaker Bhupen Hazarika, Indologist Krishna Kanta Handique, litterateur Padmashree Surya Kumar Bhuyan, former governors Debananda Konwar and Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa, and former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.
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