Assam MP Sarbananda Sonowal, a fire-brand student leader who battled odds to become chief minister, was on Sunday inducted into the Narendra Modi-led cabinet for the third time. Sonowal was the Minister of State for Sports & Youth Welfare for two years from 2014, as the northeast's sole representative in the Union Council of Ministers, before he scripted BJP's historic win in Assam to become the CM, only to relinquish the post and become a cabinet minister in the Modi 2.0 government in 2021. From the rough and tumble of student politics to becoming a minister thrice, Sonowal's political journey has been punctuated by twists and turns along the way. As a dynamic student leader who went on to join the state's most prominent regional party, the Asom Gana Parishad, and later switched over to the BJP, Sonowal was Modi's obvious choice as the chief minister of Assam when the saffron party won for the first time in the northeast in 2016. However, during the 2021 assembly elections, the ..