GUWAHATI: Bhabesh Kalita has been appointed as the State President of Assam Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by National President Jagat Prakash Nadda today, June 26.
Kalita won from the Rangiya legislative assembly constituency in the last Assam Assembly elections.
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He replaces Ranjeet Kumar Dass, who had served as the state president for the ruling party for the last five years.
However, since his win in the last Assam Assembly elections, he was inducted into the Himanta Biswa Sarma Cabinet as Minister for Panchayat and Rural Development, Public Health Engineering, Food and Civil Supplies, among others.
The office of the BJP state president had remained vacant since.