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\u00a0 \u00a0 BJP MLAs Jayanta Malla Baruah and Nandita Gorlosa on Thursday took oath as new ministers in Assam as Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma embarked on his cabinet’s first expansion, a month after completing one year in power. \u00a0 \u00a0Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi administered the oath of secrecy and office to the two first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"bottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"0","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"2","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-715","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"210"},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[2430],"class_list":["post-76249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ghy","tag-two-bjp-mlas-sworn-in-as-new-ministers-in-assam"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Nandita](\"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/286216226_584989376324100_3222570972725545209_n.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi administered the oath of secrecy and office to the two first time ministers with Baruah and Gorlosa pledged in Assamese and English respectively.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Sarma took over as chief minister of Assam on May 10 last year after BJP returned to power in the assembly elections for a second consecutive term.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Chief Minister’s Political Secretary Baruah is an MLA from Nalbari and Gorlosa represents the Haflong constituency in the Assembly.<\/span>
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\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>Baruah is a former Congress MLA and was elected for the first time in 2011. However, he did not complete his term and defected to BJP after Sarma had left the grand old party to join the saffron brigade.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Gorlosa is a first time MLA from the BJP.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0With the two new inductees, the BJP-led Assam government at present has 16 cabinet ministers and there is no one as minister of state.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0As per the 91st amendment of the Constitution in 2003, the total number of ministers, including the chief minister, in a state should not exceed 15 per cent of the total number of members of the Legislative Assembly.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0As the Assam Assembly has a strength of 126 MLAs, a maximum of 19 ministers can function at a time.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The BJP’s strength in the 126-member Assam Assembly is 63, while its allies AGP has nine and UPPL has seven MLAs.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In the opposition camp, the Congress’ strength is 27, All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) has 15 members and CPI(M) has one MLA. There is one Independent MLA also.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), which has three MLAs, lent its support to the government in the Assembly, although it has not entered into any political alliance.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"