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GUWAHATI: Shiladitya Dev, who in the past five years placed himself as a champion of Bengali-speaking Hindu in the Brahmaputra valley, is BJP’s new golden boy in Assam. After being a denied ticket, leading to his resignation from the party, Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, along with a national general secretary, heaped praises on Dev at his Hojai constituency home, saying that he will get his due position after the government is formed.
Dev, 52, has an RSS background, and won his first election in 2016 from the Hojai constituency, which is also AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal’s native place. Surprisingly, he was dropped from BJP’s list of candidates, triggering protests within RSS and resigned from the party.