Senior BJP leader and Assam education minister Siddhartha Bhattacharya is yet to shift to his official residence in Ministers Colony in Dispur, but his Jersey cows — brought especially for the purpose of daily farming — have already settled comfortably in the colony campus. 

This is the first time in Assam that a cabinet minister has decided to start a dairy farm inside his official residence. Former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav is the only other senior minister known to have a cow farm inside his residence.