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Ranjeet Kumar Dass re-elected as Assam BJP president

| @indiablooms | Jan 19, 2020, at 12:34 am

Guwahati/IBNS: Ranjeet Kumar Dass has been re-elected unopposed as the Assam BJP unit president.

On Saturday, Union Petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced Ranjeet Kumar Dass’ name as the president of Assam unit BJP for another three years in a party programme held in Guwahati.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, state minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma and other senior leaders of the party were also present in the programme.

Ranjeet Kumar Dass was elected to the Assam assembly from Sorbhog constituency in Barpeta district in 2011 and he was the deputy leader of the BJP in the Assam Legislative Assembly during 2011-2016.

Dass was again elected to the Assam assembly from the same constituency in 2016 and also elected as the Speaker of the Assam assembly in June 2016.

He first took charge as the Assam BJP unit president on January 2017.

(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)

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