Ranjeet Kumar Dass

Ranjeet Kumar Dass
Cabinet Minister, Government of Assam
Incumbent
Assumed office
10 May 2021
Chief MinisterHimanta Biswa Sarma
Portfolios
  • Panchayat and Rural Development
  • Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (until December 2024)
  • Public Health Engineering (until 2022)
  • General Administration Department (from 2022)
Preceded byNaba Kumar Doley (P&RD)
Phani Bhusan Choudhury (FCS&CA)
Rihon Daimary (PHE)
Himanta Biswa Sarma (GAD)
Speaker of the Assam Legislative Assembly
In office
2 June 2016 – 25 December 2016
DeputyDilip Kumar Paul
Preceded byPranab Kumar Gogoi
Succeeded byHitendra Nath Goswami
President, Assam Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party
In office
25 December 2016 – 26 June 2021
Preceded bySarbananda Sonowal
Succeeded byBhabesh Kalita
Member, Assam Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 May 2021
Preceded byPabindra Deka
ConstituencyPatacharkuchi
In office
13 May 2011 – 2 May 2021
Preceded byUddabh Barman
Succeeded byManoranjan Talukdar
ConstituencySorbhog
Personal details
Born (1965-12-01) 1 December 1965 (age 59)
Barpeta, Assam, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party (1992-present)
SpouseAnju Rani Baishya
Children3 (one son and two daughters)
Parent(s)Arabinda Das (father)
Hira Das (mother)
Residence(s)Barpeta Road, Assam
Alma materGauhati University (M.Sc. (Botany))
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionJournalist
Websitewww.assamassembly.gov.in/speaker-assam-2016.html

Ranjeet Kumar Dass (born 1 December 1965) is an Indian politician and journalist from Assam serving as the Minister of Panchahyat and Rural Development, Food and Civil Supplies, and Consumer Affairs, Government of Assam in the Himanta Biswa Sarma ministry since 2021. He is a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly from the Bharatiya Janata Party representing Patacharkuchi since 2021 and Sorbhog from 2011 to 2021. He was elected as Speaker of the Assam Legislative Assembly from 2016 to 2017.[1][2][3][4] He became a member of the BJP in 1992. From 2011 to 2016, he was the deputy leader of the BJP in the Assam Legislative Assembly. He served as BJP Assam state unit president from 2016 to 2021.[5][6][7]

References

  1. ^ Assam Legislative Assembly
  2. ^ My neta
  3. ^ "infoelection". Archived from the original on 21 November 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  4. ^ First session of newly elected Assam Assembly to begin today
  5. ^ MLA moves CM for skill-honing setup
  6. ^ New MLAs and ministers from Sonitpur felicitated
  7. ^ Congress shows strength in Barpeta