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Himanta Biswa Sarma to take oath as new CM of Assam

New Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma (Image credit: ThePrint)

As expected Himanta Biswa Sarma was on Sunday (May 9) elected as the leader of the 60-member Bharatiya Janata Party legislative party of Assam in Guwahati. Earlier in the day, Sarbananda Sonowal submitted his resignation to the state governor Jagdish…

10 BPF candidates moved to Bhutan: Media reports

BPF chief Hagrama Mohilary (Image credit: The Wire)

A couple of days after the air-lifting of at least 22 candidates of Grand Alliance (Mahajot) from Assam to a resort in Jaipur, Rajasthan, 10 out of 11 nominees of Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) have reportedly been moved out of…

Assam’s ‘kingmaker’ returns to Congress fold

BPF supremo Hagrama Mohilary (Image credit: The Hindu)

Just a day before Priyanka Gandhi’s two-day trip to Assam, the ‘kingmaker’ of the state Hagrama Mohilary, the supremo of the Bodoland Peoples’ Front on February 28 joined the Congress-led Mahajath. He had already left the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance…