Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma intervenes to halt Cotton University's plans to lease out valuable land in Panbazar area, drawing criticism from students and alumni. Cotton University clarifies and withdraws notification after uproar.
Cotton College (erstwhile Cotton College) celebrating 122 years of glorious existence which was inaugurated by Sir Henry Stedman Cotton on 27th May 1901.
Himanta Biswa Sarma s never-say-die spirit gets him CM s post
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Denied chief ministership in 2015 by Congress leadership, Himanta Biswa Sarma finally makes it to the post in 2021. In the span of seven years, he led BJP to a resounding victory in Assam twice.
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Denied chief ministership in 2015 by Congress leadership, Himanta Biswa Sarma finally makes it to the post in 2021. In the span of seven years, he led BJP to a resounding victory in Assam twice. Sarma had chequered political life as he moved on from former Assam chief minister, Tarun Gogoi’s trusted lieutenant to Prime minister Narendra Modi’ and Union Home minister Amit Shah’s blue eyed boy.
GUWAHATI: The Cotton University erstwhile Cotton College fraternity was elated after receiving the news of their most popular student union leader from the late 1980s becoming the 15th chief minister of Assam.
One of the breeding grounds of future politicians, Cotton College produced six former chief ministers of Assam- Gopinath Bordoloi, Mahendra Mohan Choudhury, Sarat Chandra Singha, Jogendra Nath Hazarika, Hiteswar Saikia and Bhumidhar Barman- in the post-independence era. Despite the Cotton alumni playing an influential role across the political spectrum of the state all along, a Cottonian could not adorn the chief minister s chair in Assam since 1996. As Himanta Biswa Sarma is set to be sworn in as the new chief minister on Monday, both the alumni and students of the leading higher education institution have pinned high hopes from him, which is far broader than transforming the education scenario of the state.
Himanta Biswa Sarma, 52, will succeed Sarbananda Sonowal as the 15th Chief Minister of Assam after the BJP-led alliance won with a landslide of 78 votes in the assembly elections, the results of which was declared on May 2.