Overview
- A Raj Bhavan note issued Thursday approved Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s proposal to assign portfolios to four new ministers.
- The order names Rameswar Teli to Transformation and Development, Labour Welfare, and Tea Tribes and Adivasi Welfare, Atul Bora to Panchayat and Rural Development, Implementation of the Assam Accord, Border Protection and Development, and Excise, Charan Boro to Transport and Welfare of Bodoland, and Ajanta Neog to Women and Child Development and Tourism.
- Unassigned departments remain with the chief minister until the ministry is expanded after the first sitting of the new Assembly expected in late May or early June.
- Rameswar Teli assumed charge Friday at Janata Bhawan and said he would focus on public welfare and on delivering schemes in tea garden and labour sectors.
- The four picks reflect coalition balance and community representation by including the AGP chief, a Bodo leader, a tea-tribe figure, and the cabinet’s lone woman minister.