HT Correspondent
JORHAT, April 13:Â Lakshmi Baruah Khargharia, BJP ward member of Jorhat Municipal Board, Ward number 16 of Jorhat Municipal Board (JMB) on Tuesday assumed charge as chairperson of JMB, while Dilip Dutta of the same party took over as the vice-chairman of the Board.
Khargharia is the third woman to occupy the JMB chairperson’s post with earlier two others – one from the Congress and BJP – heading the board respectively.
Earlier all the 19 ward members (BJP 9, AGP 2 and Congress 8) took oath as ward members of the board.