Guwahati: Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and several other ministers and legislators from the state have been elected to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s national council as members.
The list of newly elected members includes former Assam BJP president Bhabesh Kalita and state cabinet ministers Prasanta Phukan, Jayanta Mallabaruah, Pijush Hazarika, and Ajanta Neog.
Rajya Sabha MP Rameswar Teli and Assam Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker Dr. Numal Momin were also elected as BJP national council members.
Other members elected include Kamakhya Prasad Tasa, Diplu Ranjan Sarmah, Pallab Lochan Das, Pradan Baruah, Sushanta Borgohain, Debamoy Sanyal, Ranendra Muchahary, Tuliram Ronghang, Bhubon Pegu, Anil Kumar Das, Rajdeep Roy, Mission Ranjan Das, and Krishna Kamal Tanti.
Notably, Lok Sabha MP Dilip Saikia was elected as the new president of the ruling BJP’s Assam unit on Friday.
Saikia, who represents Darrang-Udalguri constituency, was elected unopposed as the Assam BJP president.
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The election was conducted at the Vajpayee Bhawan in Guwahati in the presence of senior leaders, including BJP national general secretary Sunil Bansal, Union Minister and election observer Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, and northeast zonal in-charge Sambit Patra.
Saikia, a former BJP national general secretary, is the second-time MP from the Darrang-Udalguri (previously Mangaldai) constituency.
He was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 2019 and was subsequently re-elected from the Darrang-Udalguri constituency in 2024.
Saikia will first lead the party in the panchayat elections, which are likely to be held in April, and then prepare for the assembly elections scheduled for next year.
