How does this year’s results compare with that of the previous election?
In the 2015 BTC elections, the Bodo People’s Front (BPF) won 20 seats and came to power, and the BJP got only one seat. The BPF is an
ally of the BJP in the state government. This year, the BPF won 17 seats the highest number of seats won by a party individually. But the BJP did not ally with the BPF, against which it had campaigned vociferously, and went ahead to form the ruling alliance with the United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL).
In the TAC, the Congress had won 15 in 2015, while the BJP won only three and the AGP, two. This time, the BJP swept the TAC polls by winning 33 seats, while the Congress won one and the AGP, which is an ally of the BJP in the state government, won two seats.
Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal lays the foundation stone of a town hall-cum-cultural centre in Karimganj on Wednesday
GUWAHATI: Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on the first day of the the party’s two-day state executive committee meeting in Karimganj on Wednesday said BJP had set a target of 104 seats in the 126-member assembly elections to which will be held early next year.
Heaping praise on Ranjeet Kumar Dass, the Assam president of the party, Sonowal said it was due to his hard work that today lotus has bloomed both in Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) and Tiwa Autonomous Council polls.
“My government has done massive developmental works in the past four and a half years. You need to reach out to the common people and apprise them of our good works,” Sonowal said.
New Delhi [India], December 22 (ANI): Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah is likely to visit Assam on December 26. Several Opposition MLAs and leaders are likely to join the BJP ahead of 2021 Assembly polls in Assam. During the visit, Shah is scheduled to hold a meeting with party leaders and review the election preparation of the forthcoming Assembly polls. BJP Vice President and party s Assam in-charge Baijayant Panda said he will reach the state on December 23 ahead of Shah s visit. Amit Shah will be visiting Assam very soon final programmes are being prepared. As state in-charge, I will be going to Assam on December 23 and will look after preparation for Amit Shah s visit. On December 25, we will celebrate Good Governance Day in Assam. On the occasion, a large statue of Late Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be unveiled in Assam, Panda told ANI.
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Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], December 22 (ANI): Two days after Trinamool Congress (TMC) heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari, along with several other leaders across party lines, switched over to the BJP, its national vice-president Baijayant Panda on Monday claimed that more leaders from opposition parties are willing to join them in the state. We are in touch with many leaders who want to join us. Opposition party members are contacting us on a daily basis, Panda said. Because of the undeniable popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which is exceptional, this is a phenomenon all over the country. Recently you have seen, when Home Minster Amit Shah was in the state, members of other parties, especially the TMC, joined BJP in large numbers, Panda said, adding people of West Bengal are tired of the violence in the state that is carried out by the current government. They want to go back to the golden old days and that can only be possible with the development agenda of the BJP u