"The BJP and its allies have finalised the seat-sharing arrangements. I am not disclosing now the number of seats each party will contest as our alliance partners have to sort out some of their internal issues," BJP state unit chief Ranjit Dass told.
The Congress had earlier formed Grand Alliance with AIUDF, CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML) and Anchalik Gana Morcha (AGM) to fight the Assembly polls against the BJP-helmed National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
Assam Assembly election | Pact with AIUDF not finalised, says Congress
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The two parties had contested recent BTC poll together
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi having a word with the party general secretary in charge of Assam, Jitendra Singh during a meeting in Jaipur. File photo
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The two parties had contested recent BTC poll together
Election to the 126-member Assam Assembly is due by May.
“We have neither finalised any alliance with the AIUDF nor with the Left Front for the Assam polls,” Congress general secretary in charge of the State Jitendra Singh said after a party meeting in Hajo near Guwahati on Friday.
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GUWAHATI: The ruling BJP in Assam will forge an alliance with the United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) and not with the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) in the upcoming state elections, BJP’s face in the Northeast and Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
“The BJP will have an alliance with the UPPL in the Assembly polls. Our central leadership will soon meet the UPPL leaders and discuss the issue of alliance,” Sarma told journalists. “Hagrama Mohilary is not our ideal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is,” he asserted.
Mohilary is the BPF president who had served as the Chief Executive Member of autonomous Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) for 17 years since its creation in 2003 as a political solution to the Bodo agitation for a separate state. The BTC administers four districts such as Kokrajhar, Chirang, Udalguri and Baksa.