Interestingly, two other CMs sworn in after the latest round of assembly elections are also Congress alumni -- West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee who founded the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Puducherry’s N Rangaswamy, founder of the NR Congress. “Both Mamata Banerjee and Himanta Biswa Sarma who are taking oath as CM are former Congress leaders. It is never too late to learn from one’s blunders,” tweeted former Congress spokesperson Sanjay Jha. “This shows that there is no dearth of talent in the Congress party. “No one trusts the Congress leadership,’’ said BJP’s general secretary Arun Singh, who was one of the party’s observers sent to Assam.

Source: Hindustan Times May 10, 2021 18:48 UTC