BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma will be sworn in as the chief minister of Assam on Monday. He was unanim✅ously elected as the saffron 🔜camp’s Assam legislature party (AGP) leader.
During the BJP legislature party meet, which lasted about 15 minutes, former Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal proposed Sarma’s name for the 🦩top post. He was seconded by state party president Ranjit Dass and Nan🔥dita Garlosa.
Soon after, Union ▨minister Narendra Singh Tomar, who had be෴en appointed as a central observer for the election, declared Sarma as the head of the legislature party.
“I asked the legislators if they had any oth📖er name to propose, but none did. I, therefore, as obse🌃rver declared Himanta Biswa Sarma as the leader of the BJP legislature party,” Tomar said.
Earlier ꦡthe AGP, consisting nine MLAS, had said that it will support whichever candidate the party fav♕ours.
This is the first time the winning party in Assam took so long to decide its chief minister after the announcement of election results. In the past, parties usually𝔉 announced their CM candidates during campaigning, whom the legislature 🐠parties would endorse post declaration of results. However, this time, neither the BJP-led NDA nor the Opposition Congress-led alliance projected their chief ministerial candidates before-hand.
The 2021 Assam Assembly electiꦆon results were declared on May 2.
Among the central BJP leader😼s who attended the meeting as observers besides Narendra S🍨ingh Tomar, were BJP general secretaries Arun Singh, B L Santosh and Baijayant Panda, who was appointed as the party’s Assam observer.
Earlier, Sonowal called on Governor Jagdish Mukhi and submit��ted his resignation before heading for the meeting ve♛nue.
This morning, Sarma visited Sonowal at his official residence, the first time he did so𒁏 after the results were declared💛. Later, the duo arrived at the meeting venue together.
Yesterday, Sarma and Sonowal had🐼 met BJP pre🌼sident J P Nadda and Union home minister Amit Shah in Delhi.
The BJP top brass conducted separate meetings with the two Assam🌳ese leaders before meeting them again together.
After the meeting, Sarma had announced that the BJP leg🐻islature party meetingꦆ would be held in Guwahati today. They returned to Guwahati around midnight yesterday.
The BJP-ꦬled NDA won 75 of the 126 Assembly seats. The BJP won 60 seats, while the AGP and UPPL won nine and si𝓡x seats, respectively.
