Assam CM oath LIVE: Himanta Biswa Sarma to be sworn in as Assam CM; PM Modi, top NDA leaders to attend

Director of Adani Defence and Aerospace, Jeet Adani, arrives in Guwahati to attend the swearing-in Ceremony of Himanta Biswa Sarma-led Assam government. 

 BJP's winning candidate from Golaghat, Ajanta Neog to take oath as Assam Minister in the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led cabinet today. "After 77 years of independence, the people of the entire country are going to witness a historic event in Assam... In the last elections, we owned almost 102 seats... In this moment, I want to thank PM Modi, HM Amit Shah, our leader Himanta Biswa Sarma and our party president Dilip Saikia... I will work for whatever ministry I am assigned with utmost sincerity," she said.

Governor of Punjab Gulab Chand Jain Kataria arrives in Guwahati to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led Assam government. 

Himanta Biswa Sarma is expected to outline the new government's priorities for the first 100 days, including commitments relating to land rights and eviction drives.

The Congress will not attend the swearing-in ceremony of the third BJP-led NDA government in Assam, as the occasion was being turned into a "political" spectacle, state party president Gaurav Gogoi said on Monday. He said the party was focusing to building a "new Congress" to reach out to the people, while analysing the reasons behind its dismal performance in the assembly elections. "No Congress representative will attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new government. We cannot take lightly the fact that a constitutional ceremony is being turned into an expensive, political and election-style rally," Gogoi told reporters.

The BJP-led NDA came to power for the third term with a stupendous two-thirds majority in last month's election. The BJP alone secured 82 seats and its allies, AGP and Bodoland People's Front (BPF), 10 each, in the 126-member Assembly. The Congress managed to win 19 seats, while its pre-poll ally Raijor Dal secured two. The AIUDF bagged two seats and the Trinamool Congress one.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, several Union ministers, chief ministers and their deputies of NDA-ruled states, top industrialists, Satradhikars (heads of Vaishnavite monasteries) and other dignitaries, besides BJP workers and booth committee presidents, will be attending the swearing-in ceremony of the third BJP-led NDA government in Assam.

Four ministers, including two from BJP allies AGP and BPF, will take oath as ministers in the new NDA government along with CM-designate Himanta Biswa Sarma on May 12. Sarma, in a post on X, also said that former minister Ranjeet Kumar Dass will be the alliance's candidate for the Assam Assembly Speaker's position.

Bora is the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) president and Boro is a Bodoland People's Front (BPF) MLA, and both were ministers in the previous NDA government. Neog was also a minister in the previous government. Teli is a former Union Minister of State who returned to state politics in the 2026 polls.

The oath-taking ceremony will be held at the Khanapara Veterinary College field in Guwahati with elaborate arrangements for accommodating several thousands of people, with separate dais also being erected for different set of dignitaries.

BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma will take oath as Assam Chief Minister on Tuesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, several Union ministers, chief ministers of NDA-ruled states, industrialists and other dignitaries set to attend. Sarma, who first became chief minister in 2021, is set to become the first non-Congress leader in Assam to serve two consecutive terms as CM.