Second Tarun Gogoi ministry
Tarun Gogoi, being administered the oath of office as Chief Minister of Assam by Governor Ajai Singh at Raj Bhavan, Guwahati on 14 May 2006
Date formed	21 May 2006
Date dissolved	30 May 2011
People and organisations
Head of state	Ajai Singh Shiv Charan Mathur K. Sankaranarayanan Syed Sibtey Razi Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
Head of government	Tarun Gogoi
Member parties	INC IND
Status in legislature	Coalition
Opposition party	Asom Gana Parishad All India United Democratic Front Bharatiya Janata Party
Opposition leader	Brindaban Goswami Chandra Mohan Patowary Prafulla Kumar Mahanta
History
Election(s)	2006
Outgoing election	2011
Legislature term(s)	5 years
Predecessor	Tarun Gogoi Ministry (2001-2006)
Successor	Tarun Gogoi Ministry (2011-2016)

Tarun Gogoi constituted his ministry for a second time on 21 May 2006. Gogoi had previously been Chief Minister since 2001. Following the 2006 Assam Legislative Assembly election, Gogoi became Chief Minister for a second time as he had formed his first ministry previously.^[1] The coalition government was supported by the Hagrama faction of the Bodoland People's Progressive Front, NCP and independents. There were 17 cabinet ministers and one minister of state, all of whom were either Congress or Independent.

Gogoi was sworn on 14 May 2006 at Raj Bhavan.^[1][2][3] Earlier, Gogoi arrived with his wife Dolly Gogoi and several newly elected MLAs at Raj Bhavan. The oath of office and secrecy was administered to Gogoi by Governor Ajai Singh at a simple function in the Durbar Hall of the Raj Bhavan in Guwahati. Digvijay Singh, who was in charge of Congress affairs in Assam, AICC observer Chandan Bagchi, BPF president Hagrama Mohilary and state Congress president Bhubaneswar Kalita attended the swearing-in ceremony. Asom Gana Parishad president Brindaban Goswami and AGP-Progressive president and former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta were also present. The opposition BJP and AIUDF were absent.^[1] Gogoi allotted the portfolios to his ministers on 21 May 2006.^[4]

During the ministry the law and order situation abruptly improved and the financial condition of the state improved. Gogoi gave importance to implementation of the schemes of the Central Government by different departments of the state. He also gave importance for industrialization of the state. He also took initiative to solve the insurgency problems of Assam through negotiation.^[3]

Tarun Gogoi, signing a document after his swearing in as Chief Minister for the second time at Raj Bhavan, Guwahati on 14 May 2006

Gogoi with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a meeting at Jorhat on 25 August 2008

Ministers

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