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Seniormost MLA of the 16th Assam Assembly, Chandra Mohan Patowary, was connected Friday (May 15, 2026) sworn successful arsenic the pro-tem Speaker by Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya.
Mr. Acharya administered the oath to the BJP person and erstwhile furniture curate astatine a ceremonial held astatine Lok Bhavan here.
"Today, astatine Lok Bhavan, Assam, I administered the oath of bureau arsenic the Pro-tem Speaker of the recently constituted 16th Assam Legislative Assembly to Shri Chandra Mohan Patowary," the Governor said successful a station connected X.
"I americium assured that drafting upon his immense acquisition and committedness to antiauthoritarian values, the archetypal proceedings of the Assembly volition beryllium conducted with implicit law dignity," Mr. Acharya added.
"Honoured to person taken oath arsenic Pro-tem Speaker of 16th @AssamAssembly, administered by Hon’ble Governor of Assam Shri @Laxmanacharya54 Ji astatine Lok Bhavan today," the seventh-time MLA said successful a station connected the societal media site.
Mr. Patowary was archetypal elected to the Assembly from Dharmapur constituency successful 1985 arsenic an Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) candidate. He represented the constituency six times, including doubly arsenic a BJP legislator since 2016.
He has been elected to the caller Assembly from Tihu constituency, created during the 2023 delimitation exercise, which includes parts of the erstwhile Dharmapur seat.
As pro-tem Speaker, Mr. Patowary volition administer the oath to recently elected MLAs during the archetypal league of the Assembly opening connected May 21.
The four-day league volition proceed till May 26, with the legislators to beryllium sworn-in connected the archetypal day, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had said earlier.
The erstwhile Cabinet Minister volition beryllium liable for the behaviour of concern till the predetermination of the caller Speaker.
The NDA had announced elder BJP legislator and ex-minister Ranjeet Kumar Dass arsenic its campaigner for the Speaker’s post, a presumption held by him initially erstwhile the archetypal saffron party-led authorities had travel to powerfulness successful the State successful 2016.
The NDA retained powerfulness for a 3rd consecutive word with a two-thirds bulk successful the precocious concluded Assembly polls. The BJP won 82 seats, portion its allies AGP and Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) secured 10 seats each successful the 126-member House.
