The Cabinet of the Government of Bengal was sworn in on Monday in West Bengal. This includes a total of 43 ministers. All the Cabinet Ministers, Independent Charges, Ministers of State were sworn in following the Covid Guidelines at Raj Bhavan.
Three ministers including Dr. Amit Mitra and Bratya Basu took the oath of office. However, the decision on the departmental division will be taken later. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was also present during this period. Earlier, TMC leader Biman Banerjee was elected as the Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly for the third consecutive time.
On the other hand, Himanta Biswa Sarma in Assam will take the oath of Chief Minister with the Cabinet at 12 noon on Monday. The swearing-in ceremony of the new cabinet will take place at Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra.
North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) Convenor Himanta paved the way for becoming Assam's 15th Chief Minister after he was unanimously elected as the leader of the BJP and NDA Legislature Party on Sunday.
TMC has won 213 seats in the recent assembly elections. At the same time, BJP won 77 seats. Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee was sworn in as Chief Minister for the third time on 5 May.
Biswa is known to be quite effective throughout the Northeast. In the Sonowal government, he held important portfolios such as Finance, Planning, and Development, Health and Family Welfare, Education, and PWD. He also has good relations with the top leaders of the central leadership. In such a situation, it is being claimed in the media reports that the BJP was under pressure to hand over the command of Assam to Biswa.
Biswa left the Congress in 2015 and joined the BJP. Amit Shah is believed to have been impressed by Biswa's political management skills at the time. Biswa is also believed to be instrumental in BJP's expansion in the North-East. According to media reports, Amit Shah also accepted this fact.
Biswa is also the convenor of the North East Democratic Alliance. This alliance was formed to bring regional parties under the leadership of the BJP. According to media reports, Biswa's eyes were always on the chief minister's chair.
In the three-phase election in Assam, the BJP alliance has got 75 seats. This figure is more than the majority. This victory of BJP has created history in Assam, because never before has a non-Congress party returned to power for the second consecutive time in 70 years.
Sonowal defeated Congress leader Rajib Lochan Pegu by 43,192 votes to win his second consecutive term in Majuli. Himanta Biswa Sarma retained the Jalukbari seat by defeating Congress's Romain Chandra Borthakur by a margin of 1.01 lakh votes. Apart from Sonowal and Sarma, 13 other BJP ministers also managed to retain their seats easily.
These results have indicated that the issue of NRC i.e. National Register of Citizens and CAA i.e. Citizen Amendment Act did not harm BJP. This claim is also reinforced because the Bodoland People's Front, which had helped the BJP win power by winning 12 seats last time, was with the Congress and the Left this time. Despite this, the BJP was not harmed.
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