The Second Ministry of Hiteswar Saikia was the Cabinet of Assam headed by Chief Minister of Assam Hiteswar Saikia that was formed after the 1991 Assam Legislative Assembly election. The 36 member Congress ministry included 21 Cabinet Ministers and 15 Ministers of State. The election was held between 6 and 8 June 1991 and this led to the formation of the 9th Assam Legislative Assembly. Saikia was sworn in as Chief Minister on 30 June 1991 by Governor Lokanath Misra. The ministry was dissolved following the death of Chief Minister Hiteswar Saikia on 22 April 1996.
Ministers +NameConstituencyPortfolioPartyHiteswar SaikiaChief MinisterNaziraChief MinisterINCCabinet MinistersKeshab Chandra GogoiDibrugarh Planning DevelopmentINCAnwara TaimurDalgaon Agriculture TourismINCGolok RajbanshiRangapara PWD Parliamentary AffairsINCMukut SharmaNowgong Revenue Land reformsINCGobinda Chandra LangthasaHaflong Deputy Chief Minister Hills area development (HAD) Hill plan Registration Stamps Health Family welfareINCZahirul IslamMankachar IrrigationINCBijit SaikiaTezpur IndustriesINCAfzalur RahmanJaleswar Panchayat Community DevelopmentINCS. S. OjhaTinsukia Transport Khadi Village industriesINCDileswar TantiDoom Dooma LabourINCBargaram DeuriBihpuria Welfare of plain tribes, Scheduled Castes and other backward communities Sericulture WeavingINCNakul DasMangaldoi VeterinaryINCNagen NeogGolgahat Cooperation Border Areas DevelopmentINCKulbahadur ChetriMargherita Social WelfareINCSilvius CondpanMajbat Employment FisheriesINCHaren BhumijLahowal Flood control Science and Technology EnvironmentINCDinesh Prasad GoalaLakhipur PowerINCBhumidhar BarmanBarkhetry EducationINCArdhendu Kumar DeyHojai Food Civil suppliesINCDevanand KonwarThowra Law Municipal AdministrationINCMinisters of StateAbu Saleh NajmuddinBadarpur Home Health EducationINCGomeswar PeguJonai RevenueINCIsmail HussainBarpeta AgricultureINCBoloram NagKaliabor LabourINCIndra GogoiLakhimpur Flood control Youth SportsINCGautam RoyKatlicherra Panchayat Community Development Rural DevelopmentINCJagat PatgiriDudhnai Welfare of Plain Tribals Sericulture WeavingINCAnwar HussainBilasipara East Planning Development FinanceINCDebesh ChakrabortyLumding Relief Rehabilitation Social welfareINCMohibul HaqueDhubri Border area Power Rural electrification INCSarat BarkotokySonari PWD Printing Secondary educationINCGopi DasBoko Forests and FisheriesINCChittaranjan PatowaryGauhati East TransportINCNurul HussainSamaguri Cooperation INCGautam BoraBatadroba Health Family WelfareINCRashidul HaqueRupohihat Minority affairs VeterinaryINC
Changes
On 18 October 1991, Planning and Development Minister Kesab Chandra Gogoi was given charge of Public Enterprise while Law Minister Shri Devanand Konwar was given the additional charge of Power, Planning and Development. On 25 November 1991, Minister of State for Transport Chittaranjan Patowary was dismissed. On 27 November, Minister for Public Enterprises Kesab Chandra Gogoi was dismissed for alleged anti-party activities.
On 22 April 1995, the ministry was reshuffled, with no ministers being dismissed and no ministers being inducted. Golok Rajbanshi was divested of his portfolio and given power, non-convention energy, law whilst retaining parliamentary affairs. Mukut Sharma retained tourism and was given the additional portfolio of education. Devanand Konwar was divested of the law, power and municipal administration portfolios and given revenue and land reforms.
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