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Ranjeet Kumar Dass was connected Thursday (May 21, 2026) elected Speaker of the Assam Assembly for a 2nd term, a archetypal successful the State.
The recently elected 126-member House besides acceptable a precedent connected the inaugural time of its archetypal league by allowing MLAs belonging to the taste communities to instrumentality the oath successful their parent tongues. This followed a ceremonial petition from Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to honour the State’s divers linguistic heritage.
The four-day league opened with Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya appointing the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Chandra Mohan Patowary, the senior-most subordinate of the House, arsenic the Pro-tem Speaker.
Mr. Patowary, who represents the Tihu Assembly seat, administered the oath to the Chief Minister and 4 Cabinet Ministers — Atul Bora of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), Rameswar Teli and Ajanta Neog of the BJP, and Charan Boro of the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF).
The different MLAs took oath successful Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, English, Sanskrit, and respective taste tongues, including Karbi, Rabha and Rajbongshi.
“This was the archetypal clip that recently elected MLAs took oath successful languages of their choice, beyond the 22 languages listed successful the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India,” the Chief Minister told the House.
Later, Mr. Dass, who represents the Bhowanipur-Sorbhog constituency, was unanimously elected arsenic the Speaker. He had earlier served arsenic the Speaker from June 2016 to January 2017.
A erstwhile writer and teacher, Mr. Dass served arsenic an Indian Information Service (IIS) serviceman earlier joining authorities successful 2005.
Uniform Civil Code
Mr. Acharya, the Governor, is scheduled to code the Assembly connected Friday (May 22, 2026). Legislation related to the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code, approved by the Cabinet a week ago, is expected to beryllium tabled connected May 26, the last time of the session.
“We volition walk the Uniform Civil Code Bill during this Assembly session. It was a [pre-election] committedness that we mean to fulfil,” the Chief Minister told journalists connected Wednesday (May 20), adding that the Cabinet would beryllium expanded successful June.
