Tanka Bahadur Rai unanimously elected Speaker

Guwahati, May 29 (UNI) Congress MLA and former Deputy Speaker Tanka Bahadur Rai was today unanimously elected Speaker of the 12th Asom Legislative Assembly.

His unanimous election was announced by Pro-tem speaker G C Langthasa amid applause from members.

He was escorted to the Speaker's chair by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, AGP legislative party leader Brindaban Goswami and BJP leader Mison Ranjan Das.

Later all party leaders of the Assembly congratulated him over his election.

Earlier, all the 126 members of the newly-elected Assembly were sworn in by Mr Langthasa. They included five former members of Parliament and six erstwhile militants.

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