On May 12, 2026, Himanta Biswa Sarma returned to Dispur with the sort of mandate that removes both rivals and excuses. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 82 of Assam’s 126 seats, crossing the majority mark on its own for the first time, while the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) touched 102, with the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) winning 10 seats each. Sarma—now the first non-Congress chief minister of Assam to win a second consecutive term—begins NDA 3.0 as the BJP’s most unchallenged leader in the state.
