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GUWAHATI, JUNE 13. The downsizing of Assam Ministry, which has already crippled the normal functioning of the state government, will be done on July 6, Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, said today. Inaugurating the official website of the Pradesh Congress, he also announced the creation of a new department for the development of tea tribal people. ``One is a constitutional necessity and another is political necessity,'' he noted. July 8 is the last date of ministry downsizing, while the All Assam Tea Tribes Student Association forced the government to open a new department. The Congress is under pressure after they lost their bastion to BJP and AGP in the last general elections. Although the Chief Minister has been repeatedly asserting that he would wait till the last moment before effecting the change, the state government has ceased to function with the ministers literally withdrawing from day-to-day affair. ``It is an unpleasant job but we have to drop nearly half of the present ministers,'' said Mr Gogoi, as the political circle abuzz with daily circulation of new list of ministers to be dropped. Most of the ministers, in fact, are busy in politiking and settling their own scores to ensure that their job was secured, leaving the government's daily functioning in the hands of the bureaucrats. Some in the Cabinet, like Power Minister Devananda Konwar or Agriculture Minister Ardhendu Kumar Dey, have literally stopped attending office. The worst affected is the power department as the Chairman of the Assam State Electricity Board has also left abruptly for Delhi to be the personal secretary of Union Minister for Heavy Industries Santosh Mohan Dev. ``I will like to wait till the last because I want to avail the service of all these ministers till the last,'' Mr Gogoi told reporters yesterday. - UNI
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