{"id":112561,"date":"2021-07-16T11:36:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T06:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digpu.com\/?p=112561"},"modified":"2021-07-16T11:36:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T06:06:23","slug":"first-woman-finance-minister-ajanta-neog-will-present-the-first-budget-of-new-assam-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digpu.com\/india-news\/first-woman-finance-minister-ajanta-neog-will-present-the-first-budget-of-new-assam-govt","title":{"rendered":"First woman Finance Minister Ajanta Neog will present the first budget of new Assam govt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">Ajanta Neog had left the party weeks before the March-April Assembly elections to join the ruling BJP<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first woman Finance Minister will present the first budget of Assam\u2019s new state government. This was stated by Chief Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/digpu.com\/?s=Himanta+Biswa+Sarma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Himanta Biswa Sarma<\/strong><\/a> on Friday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chief minister said the budget would address the aspirations of people from all walks of life and be a guide of Assam&#8217;s progress and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith blessings of PM Sri <a href=\"https:\/\/indiapressrelease.com\/?s=Narendra+Modi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Narendra Modi<\/strong><\/a>, first woman FM of Assam Smt Ajanta Neog will present the first budget of the new government,\u201d the CM tweeted, adding, \u201cIt shall address aspirations of all sections of society &amp; will be designed to steer Assam\u2019s pace of progress &amp; development.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With blessings of Adarniya PM Sri <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">@narendramodi<\/a>, 1st woman FM of Assam Smt <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AjantaNeog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">@AjantaNeog<\/a> will present First Budget of new govt. It shall address aspirations of all sections of society &amp; will be designed to steer Assam\u2019s pace of progress &amp; development.<br><br>Seeking blessings of you all. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fCiOB1S23m\">pic.twitter.com\/fCiOB1S23m<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Himanta Biswa Sarma (Modi Ka Parivar) (@himantabiswa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/himantabiswa\/status\/1415870002704502785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">July 16, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on May 11 allocated the finance portfolio to Neog, making her the first woman Finance Minister of the northeastern state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An influential minister in the previous Tarun Gogoi-led Congress government (2001-2016), Neog had left the party weeks before the March-April Assembly elections to join the ruling BJP. The leader retained her Golaghat seat, defeating her nearest opponent Bitupan Saikia of the Congress by a margin of 9,325 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajanta Neog had left the party weeks before the March-April Assembly elections to join the ruling BJP The first woman Finance Minister will present the first budget of Assam\u2019s new state government. This was stated by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday The chief minister said the budget would address the aspirations of people &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216069,"featured_media":112562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[24695,927,24696,3682,19639,24487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digpu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digpu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digpu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digpu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digpu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digpu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digpu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digpu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digpu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digpu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}