Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is all set to be the subsequent chief minister of the state after the BJP-led coalition gained the Assembly elections held this yr. According to sources in the get together, Sarma’s title might be proposed by incumbent Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal in a gathering of the newly elected MLAs on Sunday afternoon.
The BJP Legislature Party in Assam will meet to elect the subsequent Chief Minister of the state. The assembly is scheduled to start from 11 am and Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar and get together General Secretary Arun Singh might be current as central observers. Baijayant Panda, BJP’s Assam in-charge can even be current on the event. Party’s state unit President Ranjeet Kumar Dass visited the legislative meeting Saturday night to overview preparations for the legislature get together assembly. He, nevertheless, refused to expose the small print of the scheduled assembly.
The state NDA, together with AGP and UPPL, will on Sunday maintain a gathering at 1 pm to ratify the chief of legislative get together. Later in the day, round 4 pm, the BJP unit of Assam will meet Governor Jagdish Mukhi to stake declare to kind the federal government. In the outcomes introduced for the 126-member Assam Assembly final Sunday, the BJP gained 60 seats whereas its alliance companions AGP bought 9 seats and UPPL six. The swearing-in ceremony of the brand new chief minister will happen on Monday. BJP nationwide president J P Nadda might be be current on the the oath-taking occasion.
On Saturday, Sarma and Sonowal, each contenders for the highest submit, had 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 common secretary (Organisation) B L Santhosh. A sequence of conferences, lasting for greater than 4 hours, had been held with Nadda and Shah with the duo, following which Sarma stated that the BJP’s legislature get together is probably going to meet on Sunday and all questions associated to the subsequent authorities might be answered there. Both Sonowal and Sarma had gone collectively to Delhi on Saturday morning by a chartered flight and returned at night time together with the central observers.
Sonowal, who belongs to Assam’s indigenous Sonowal-Kachari tribals, and Sarma, the convenor of the North East Democratic Alliance, had been each contenders for the highest submit of the Assam authorities. The BJP had not introduced a chief ministerial candidate earlier than the Assembly polls in Assam and speculations are rife for the final one week on who could be the subsequent chief minister of the state.
In the 2016 Assembly polls, the BJP had projected Sonowal as its chief ministerial candidate and gained, forming the primary saffron get together authorities in the northeast. This time, the get together has been sustaining that it might determine who could be the subsequent chief minister of Assam after the elections.
Party sources had stated the title of the chief minister was anticipated to be proposed by both of the contenders with the get together president doubtless to second it. The ruling BJP alliance is the primary non-Congress authorities in the state to win the elections for the second consecutive time period.
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