Himanta Biswa Sarma was on Sunday elected unanimously by the BJP Legislature Party to change into the chief minister of Assam and it was a dream come true for the BJP chief, who had aimed for the submit way back. Sarma, who can also be the convenor of the North East Democratic Alliance, turns into the chief minister for the primary time and will probably be formally sworn-in on Monday.
Born to Kailash Nath Sarma and Mrinalinin Devi on February 1, 1969 in Jorhat, Himanta’s education befell at Natun Saraniya Prathamik Bidyalay, Gandhibasti in Guwahati and he later went to Kamrup Academy within the metropolis. He accomplished his commencement from Cotton College and post-graduation from Gauhati University. He holds a masters diploma in Political Science and has additionally finished an LLB, and a PhD on the subject of North Eastern Council: A Structural and Functional Analysis.
Himanta Biswa Sarma began his political profession very early with All Assam Students’ Union (AASU). He delivered his debutant speech at an AASU rally in Patacharkuchi in 1979. He was elected to the physique of Kamrup Academy because the assistant normal secretary for the primary time in 1982-83. This was the primary election he ever gained. In his last yr of highschool, in 1984-85, Sarma was elected pupil physique’s normal secretary.
During the Assam Agitation he was given extra accountability within the AASU to organise rallies and mobilise college students and have become Secretary to the AASU’s Guwahati unit. In 1987-88, Himanta turned AGS within the Cotton Candy Students’ Union and went on to change into the GS thrice in 1988-89, 89-90 and 91-92. This is a file nonetheless in his title.
In 1994, he joined the Advisory Committee for Students and Youth Welfare as member secretary. Headquartered in Nehru Stadium, this Committee was chaired by Hiteswar Saikia, then CM and labored for welfare of scholars and youth golf equipment in Assam. Around that point, the 25-year-old Himanta Biswa Sarma joined the Congress and went on to contest elections from Jalukbari LAC in 1996, through which he misplaced.
His first election victory was registered in 2001 from Jalukbari on Congress ticket. He later contested from the identical seat within the subsequent two consecutive elections in 2006 and 2011 and gained. In 2002, Sarma was made the minister of state (MoS) within the Agriculture Department. Later on in 2006, he turned the well being minister and was given the portfolios of well being and training in 2011.
In July 2014, he resigned from the Tarun Gogoi ministry stated he would combat extra vigorously for the elimination of the chief minister. Sarma had then raised the problem of Tarun Gogoi authorities’s “anti-people” and resigned from the party when the Congress decided not to remove Tarun Gogoi from the chief minister’s post. Some senior Congress legislators who had earlier backed Sarma did not join his cavalcade to the Raj Bhavan. Later, Himanta and 28 other Congress MLAs went to the Governor and tendered their resignation.
An ambitious Sarma had first made his dream of becoming the chief minister public in 2011 and later began openly revolting when the chief minister launched his son Gaurav. In July 2014, Sarma claimed support of 52 of the Congress party’s 78 legislators and staked claim to become the CLP leader, which was soon turned down by AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi.
Sarma later joined the BJP in August, 2015. Once Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s most trusted lieutenant, Sarma joined hands with BJP, creating ripples through the rank and file of the ruling Congress party. His move came ahead of the state Assembly elections in April, 2016, in which he fought on BJP ticket and won by a margin of 85,935 votes. He was handed the health portfolio.
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