India, May 22 -- Four-time BJP MLA Ranjeet Kumar Dass was on Thursday unanimously elected as the Speaker of the 16th Assam Legislative Assembly, becoming the only legislator in the state to assume the chair for the second time.

Pro tem Speaker Chandra Mohan Patowary announced that there were three nominations in favour of Dass, and no one contested him.

"As there is no other nomination, I declare Ranjeet Kumar Dass as the Speaker of the 16th Assam Legislative Assembly," he added.

This is the second term for Dass as the Speaker of the Assembly. He was in the chair in 2016 when the BJP formed its first Government in the northeastern state.

Dass, the MLA from Bhowanipur-Sorbhog seat, was a cabinet minister during Himanta Biswa Sarma's fi...