BJP MLA Biswajit Daimary to be the Speaker and Numal Momin to be the Deputy Speaker of Assam Assembly

Guwahati: The members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a meeting on Thursday selected BJP MLA Biswajit Daimary to be the next Speaker and Numal Momin as the Deputy Speaker for the 15th Assam Legislative Assembly, the first session of which will begin on Friday.

According to the reports, Daimary submitted his nomination paper for the post of the Speaker of the Assam assembly and Momin submitted his papers for the Deputy Speaker's post. Daimary filed his nomination in presence of Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma and BJP state president Ranjeet Kumar Dass.

In February, Daimary was re-elected to the Rajya Sabha after he switched sides to the BJP from the Bodoland People's Front (BPF). He contested the assembly polls from the Panery constituency and won by a margin of 35,852 votes.

Similarly, Momin was elected to the assembly for the second consecutive time from the Bokajan seat.

On the first day of the session, all the newly elected 126 MLAs will be administered the oath of secrecy.

On the second day, May 22, the Governor would address the Assembly and on May 24, the concluding day of the three-day Assembly session, a motion of thanks for Governor's speech has been scheduled. May 23 is Sunday therefore there will be no sitting of the Assembly.

AGP leader, former Assam Minister for Food and Civil Supplies and 8-time MLA from Bongaigaon, Phani Bhushan Choudhury would be the pro-tem speaker. Choudhury was administered the oath of secrecy on Wednesday by Assam Chief Secretary Jishnu Baruah in the absence of the Governor.

CM Sarma had designated Choudhury as the protem speaker. This will be the first Assembly session after the Assam Assembly elections of 2021.

In the recently concluded Assam elections 2021, BJP won 60 seats, Congress won 29, AIUDF 16, AGP won 9 seats, UPPL won 6, BPF won 4, CPI-M won 1 seat and Akhil Gogoi, President of Raijor Dal won the Sibsagar seat. This is counted as Independent.

There are 6 new faces in the Assam Council of Ministers – Assam BJP President Ranjit Kumar Dass, Patacharkuchi MLA in charge of Panchayat and Rural Development, Public Health Engineering, Food & Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Bimal Bora, Tingkhong MLA who has been given the portfolios of Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Power and Sports and Youth Affairs, Dr Ranoj Pegu, Dhemaji MLA in charge of Education and Welfare of Plain Tribe & Backward Classes- non-BTC, Urkhao Gwra Brahma, Chapaguri MLA in charge of Handloom & Textile, Soil Conservation, Welfare of Plain Tribe & Backward Classes, Ashok Singhal, Bilasipara East MLA in charge of Guwahati Development, urban Development, Irrigation and veteran politician from Golaghat, Ajanta Neog in charge of Finance and Social Welfare.

Daimary is the MLA from Panery and Momin is from Bokajan.

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