The Opposition parties raised a gamut of issues like COVID-19 management, vaccination drive, NRC, talks with the ULFA-I etc by taking part in the thanks-giving motion of the Governor s speech in the.
Ajanta Neog (PTI PHOTO)
GUWAHATI: Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday allocated the finance portfolio to the lone woman member of his cabinet Ajanta Neog, making her the first female finance minister of the state. In the last NDA government, Sarma had held this portfolio.
Sarma kept the departments of home, personnel and public works and any other departments not allotted to any minister with him. Neog will hold the additional responsibility of the social welfare department. Ally AGP’s Keshab Mahanta was given the crucial health department amid the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic after Sarma himself had successfully carried out the responsibilities of this department last year. Mahanta will also be in charge of science and technology and information technology departments.
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Once again, religious identity emerged as a determining factor in the State
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BJP supporters at an election rally in Sualkuchi, Kamrup (Metro) district of Assam. File photo
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Once again, religious identity emerged as a determining factor in the State
After wresting Assam from the Congress in 2016, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was able to retain the State in the recently concluded Assembly election, thus strengthening its eastern footprint. In 2016, the BJP successfully consolidated Hindu votes in a State where elections were largely governed by the multiple ethnicities it hosts. The story after five years remains more or less the same, with religious identity yet again emerging as one of the key determinants for electors, albeit on a slightly muted level. Of course, the Lokniti-CSDS post-poll survey data indicate relatively high satisfaction with both the Central and State governments among voters and the absence
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