Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma Expands Cabinet, 2 New Ministers Take Oath

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma appointed two BJP MLAs as new ministers in his Cabinet and also reshuffled a few portfolios on Thursday, 9 June.

The number of ministers in the Cabinet has now increased to 16, with 13 from the BJP and three from partners Asom Gana Parishad and United Peoples’ Party Liberal.

Baruah, a two-term MLA and Sarma’s former political secretary, has been assigned the departments of public health engineering, employment, skill, entrepreneurship, and tourism, while Gorlosa has been given the departments of power, cooperation, mines and minerals, indigenous and tribal faith and culture.