India
BJP leader back to head India's Assam state for second time in a row
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Himanta Biswa Sarma has taken oath as the chief minister of Assam for a second consecutive term. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) retained power in Assam, winning 82 of 126 seats in the assembly elections. Sarma is seen as one of the architects of BJP's growth in India's northeast, a region where smaller parties and the Congress once dominated politics