15th and current Chief Minister Of Assam
Himanta Biswa Sarma
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Himanta_Biswa_Sarma_%28cropped%29.jpg/170px-Himanta_Biswa_Sarma_%28cropped%29.jpg) Sarma in 2022
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Assumed office
10 May 2021
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Governor
| Gulab Chand Kataria
Jagdish Mukhi
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Preceded by
| Sarbananda Sonowal
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In office
24 May 2016 ? 9 May 2021
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Chief Minister
| Sarbananda Sonowal
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Ministry
| Finance, Planning and Development, Health and Family Welfare, Education, Public Works,
Government of Assam
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In office
2011?2014
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Chief Minister
| Tarun Gogoi
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Ministry
| Finance, Health & Family Welfare, Public Works, Transformation & Development,
Government of Assam
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In office
2006?2011
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Chief Minister
| Tarun Gogoi
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Ministry
| Health and Family Welfare, Finance, Public Works, Culture,
Government of Assam
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In office
1 September 2004 ? June 2006
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Chief Minister
| Tarun Gogoi
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Ministry
| Finance, Planning and Development,
Government of Assam
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In office
7 June 2002 ? 31 August 2004
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Chief Minister
| Tarun Gogoi
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Ministry
| Agriculture, Planning and Development,
Government of Assam
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Assumed office
2001
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Preceded by
| Bhrigu Kumar Phukan
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Constituency
| Jalukbari
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Assumed office
2016
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Chairperson
| Amit Shah
J. P. Nadda
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Preceded by
| Position established
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Assumed office
10 May 2021
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Governor
| Gulab Chand Kataria
Jagdish Mukhi
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Chief Minister
| Himself
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Preceded by
| Sarbananda Sonowal
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Born
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1969-02-01
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1 February 1969
(age 55)
Jorhat
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Assam
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India
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Political party
| Bharatiya Janata Party
(2015?present)
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Other political
affiliations
| Indian National Congress
(1991?2015)
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Spouse
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Children
| 2
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Alma mater
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Profession
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Signature
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Website
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Nickname
| Himanta Mama
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Himanta Biswa Sarma
(born 1 February 1969) is an Indian politician and lawyer serving as the 15th and current
Chief Minister of Assam
since 2021. A former member of the
Indian National Congress
, Sarma joined the
Bharatiya Janata Party
on 23 August 2015 and soon was made
convenor
of
NEDA
.
[1]
He is a five time
Member of the Assam Legislative Assembly
from
Jalukbari
, having been elected since 2001.
[2]
[3]
Early life and education
[
edit
]
Sarma was born on 1 February 1969 in
Jorhat
,
Assam
, the family, including six
siblings
, later shifted to
Ulubari
, Gandhibasti in
Guwahati
.
[3]
[4]
He belongs to an
Assamese
family which traces its origins to Latima in
Nalbari district
.
[5]
[6]
Sarma married Riniki Bhuyan Sarma in 2001, with whom he has a son, Nandil Biswa Sarma,
[7]
who attended
The Doon School
,
[8]
and a daughter, Sukanya Sarma, who attended
Mayo College Girls School
.
[9]
[4]
Sarma was educated at Kamrup Academy School, Guwahati in 1985 and joined
Cotton College, Guwahati
(now known as Cotton University) for his undergraduate education.
[10]
He was elected the General Secretary of
Cotton College Students Union
, serving from 1991 to 1992.
[11]
Sarma is the seventh chief minister of Assam from Cotton University.
[12]
[13]
He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1990 and Master of Arts in 1992, both in
political science
, from the university.
[10]
Thereafter, Sarma obtained a
Bachelor of Laws
from Government Law College, Guwahati, and became a solicitor in 1995. He practised law at the
Gauhati High Court
from 1996 to 2001. In 2006, he completed a
Doctorate of Philosophy
in political science from
Gauhati University
on the topic North Eastern Council:A structural and functional analysis, defending his dissertation shortly before he was elected to public office.
[10]
[4]
[14]
Political career
[
edit
]
Indian National Congress
[
edit
]
Sarma with
Kapil Sibal
, releasing a report on Seismic Microzonation of
Guwahati
, on 18 January 2008
Sarma was elected to the
Assam Legislative Assembly
from
Jalukbari
for the first time in 2001 when he defeated
Asom Gana Parishad
leader
Bhrigu Kumar Phukan
. He was re-elected in 2006, then in 2011 for a third consecutive term with a 78,000 vote margin.
[15]
[16]
Sarma held important portfolios (both state and cabinet) as Minister of State for Agriculture, Planning and Development, Finance, Health, Education, and
Assam Accord
Implementation from 2002 to 2014.
[15]
[17]
He was made Cabinet Minister for Health in 2006, and in 2011 he was also entrusted with the additional charge of Education.
[9]
During his tenure, three medical colleges in
Jorhat
,
Barpeta
and
Tezpur
were built.
[18]
He also initiated work for five more medical colleges in
Diphu
,
Nagaon
,
Dhubri
,
North Lakhimpur
and
Kokrajhar
, which are now in various startup stages.
[19]
Bharatiya Janata Party
[
edit
]
Sarma with
Amit Shah
and
Kamakhya Prasad Tasa
After political disagreements with the former chief minister
Tarun Gogoi
, Sarma resigned from all positions on 21 July 2014. He was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the
Jalukbari
constituency until his resignation from the Assembly on 15 September 2015.
[4]
[20]
Sarma joined
Bharatiya Janata Party
on 23 August 2015 at the residence of
Amit Shah
at
New Delhi
.
[21]
He was appointed the party's Convener of the Election Management Committee for the upcoming Assembly Elections in the state.
[22]
In May 2016, Sarma won the
Jalukbari constituency
for the fourth consecutive term and was sworn in as Cabinet Minister on 24 May in
Sonowal ministry
, in the first BJP Government in
North East India
. He was allotted portfolios like Finance, Health & Family Welfare, Education, Planning & Development, Tourism, Pension & Public Grievances.
[23]
Sports administrator
[
edit
]
On 23 April 2017, Sarma was unanimously elected as President of
Badminton Association of India
. Sarma has been the president of the Assam Badminton Association. He also became the president of the
Assam Cricket Association
in June 2016 when his party man Pradip Buragohain became the secretary. Sarma was also the longest-serving vice president of the association serving from 2002 to 2016.
[24]
[25]
On 25 March 2022, Sarma was re-elected as the president of
Badminton Association of India
for a second term of four years from 2022 to 2026 in general body meeting in Guwahati.
[26]
[27]
Chief Minister of Assam
[
edit
]
Appointment
[
edit
]
On 8 May 2021, Sarma along with Chief Minister
Sarbananda Sonowal
were summoned to
New Delhi
, for discussions on the formation of a new government. Sarma and Sonowal held a series of meetings lasting more than 4 hours with
BJP President
J P Nadda
and
Home Minister
Amit Shah
. On 9 May Sonowal tendered his resignation to
Governor
Jagadish Mukhi
, ahead of a meeting the same day to decide the next Chief Minister.
[28]
[29]
[30]
[31]
Sarma's name was proposed by the outgoing Sonowal, BJP state president
Ranjeet Kumar Dass
and newly elected MLA
Nandita Garlosa
. As no other name was presented to be chief minister, Sarma was unanimously elected as the BJP legislature leader.
[32]
On 10 May 2021, Sarma was sworn in as the 15th Chief Minister of Assam by Governor
Jagadish Mukhi
, succeeding
Sonowal
.
[33]
[34]
[35]
[36]
He was congratulated by
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
on his appointment.
[34]
Tenure
[
edit
]
Sarma urged
the Muslim
community to adopt decent family planning in June 2021. He also stressed the need for a new law against illegal cattle smuggling in Assam.
[37]
Mission Basundhara was launched under Sarma in 2021; it aims at helping residents with issues related to land and property.
[38]
Assam government under his leadership has announced decision of converting 740 Muslim
madrasas
funded by state to normal schools.
[39]
His tenure experienced a rise in
extrajudicial killings
, which he has openly supported.
[40]
[41]
[42]
His government has demolished many
Islamic
madrasas
in the state, alleging its association with terrorist groups and organizations.
[43]
Boundary dispute with Mizoram
[
edit
]
On 26 July 2021
Assam Police
and
Mizoram Police
(
Mizoram
is an adjacent state to Assam on its southern boundary) fired upon each other supposedly part of the decades-old
Assam-Mizoram border dispute
. Assam lost six
police
personnel and a civilian in the firefight, while one youth from
Mizoram
suffered a gunshot wound. Both sides charged each other with opening fire first.
Reports from news media indicate that on 24 July 2021, Himanta Biswa Sarma and
Zoramthanga
had a one-to-one talk about the
boundary dispute
where both agreed to settle the matter amicably through talks. Before this could take place, and only two days after the two Chief Ministers held their talks, this incident took place.
[44]
Days after
skirmish
which left dozens of others injured, the
Assam government
on 29 July 2021 issued a
travel advisory
, asking people of the state
not
to travel to
Mizoram
- the first such travel advisory ever, by a state in the independent India.
[45]
Himanta retracted from this advisory a day later.
[46]
Further, Assam's Home and Political Department said on 29 July that the police should carry out an intensive drive against
drugs
and check all vehicles entering into
Assam
from
Mizoram
.
[47]
[48]
Events
[
edit
]
Falsely accused Dhubri MP's supporter as Pakistan supporter
[
edit
]
In November 2020, Biswa posted on social media, claiming that supporters of
AIUDF
Chief and Dhubri
MP
,
Badruddin Ajmal
had shouted slogans in support of
Pakistan
to greet him, on his arrival at
Silchar airport
. Biswa's claim was reiterated by an Assamese news channel, News Live, which is owned by Biswa's wife, and then also confirmed by several news channels and newspapers, including
Times Now
,
CNN News18
, and
The New Indian Express
.
Biswa's posts were flagged by
Facebook
as misinformation and blocked from being shared, after independent third-party fact-checkers examined videos of the event, and demonstrated that the slogans shouted had consisted of the names of political leaders and not in support of Pakistan. Guwahati Police have since registered a
First Information Report
and opened a case.
[49]
[50]
[51]
[52]
[53]
[54]
Claimed no need for mask
[
edit
]
In April 2021, Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that there is no need to wear masks in the state as there is no more coronavirus present in Assam when India was undergoing the
second wave of COVID-19
.
[55]
Made derogatory remarks against Rahul Gandhi
[
edit
]
On 11 February 2022 while addressing a rally at
Uttarakhand
, Sarma said to
Rahul Gandhi
, "Did we ever ask you for proof of whether you are
Rajiv Gandhi
's son or not?"
[56]
His statements were criticized by then
Chief Minister of Telangana
,
KCR
for using derogatory language against a
Member of Parliament
and said these derogatory language should not be used by a
chief minister
of a
state
.
[57]
TPCC
president
Revanth Reddy
filed a complain at
Jubilee Hills
police station of Hyderabad city., a case has been registered under sections 504 and 505 (2) of the
Indian Penal Code
against Himanta Biswa Sarma.
[58]
Revanth Reddy
said, "Himanta Biswa Sarma's remarks are humiliating for a woman" and asked "Why did the
Chief Electoral Officer of the National Election Commission
not order the arrest of Himanta Biswa Sharma?". "
BJP
should remove Himanta Biswa from the
post of Chief Minister
. But the
BJP
is supporting the remarks of the Assam
Chief Minister
." Reddy said.
[58]
On 19 September 2023,
Uttarakhand High Court
summoned Sarma for his remarks.
[59]
Court related
[
edit
]
Though Sarma was implicated in the Manabendra Sarma case he was acquitted by the court.
[60]
[61]
[62]
A Delhi-based advocate from Assam has lodged a complaint with the
National Human Rights Commission
(NHRC) against the
Assam police
"on an encounter spree" since Sarma stated in the police conference that police should shoot alleged criminals at legs which are permitted by the law.
[63]
During
Prime Minister Modi's
visit to the
United States
in June 2023, former President
Obama
made comments about Muslims in India. In response, Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed with
Islamophobic
slur that there are many "Hussain Obama in India" (in reference to Obama's full name,
Barack Hussein Obama II
) and his priority will be in dealing with them.
[64]
Triggered extensive discussions in India and abroad.
[65]
On July 2023,
an Independent
Rajya Sabha member
filed a police complaint against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, accusing him of delivering a "
hate speech
" against the
'Miya' community
(Bengali-Muslim Community) who often
are targets of communal attacks
. Sarma had commented on high vegetable prices, stating that Miya vendors charge more in
Guwahati
compared to Assamese vendors. He emphasized clearing footpaths and urged Assamese people to initiate businesses. The remarks sparked controversy and led to a formal complaint against the Chief Minister.
[66]
Hate Speech against Congress Leaders
[
edit
]
On 19 September, while addressing a rally in
Madhya Pradesh
,
Sarma
told
Kamal Nath
to burn 10,
Janpath
to prove his
Hindu
Identity.
[67]
Few days later,
Leader of Opposition, Assam
,
Debabrata Saikia
filled
FIR
on
Sarma
for
hate speech
.
[68]
Awards
[
edit
]
In September 2023, the Singapore government awarded Himanta Biswa Sarma the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Exchange Fellowship for his distinguished contribution to public service.
[69]
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