Guwahati, May 31 -- Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that the state Council of Ministers will be expanded on June 5.

The cabinet expansion is expected to take place shortly after Assam Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya returns from Mongolia, where he is leading an Indian delegation accompanying the holy relics of Lord Buddha's two principal disciples, Arhant Sariputra and Arhant Maudgalyayana, for a sacred exposition organised under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

He will return to India on June 3.

"I am pleased to inform that the Council of Ministers of the Government of Assam will be expanded on 5 June 2026," Sarma wrote on X.

Currently, the cabinet operates with only four ministers alongside the Chief...