Himanta Biswa Sarma Likely To Be New Assam Chief Minister May 09, 2021, 10:14 IST
In the recently concluded Assam Assembly Polls, BJP led alliance won 75 out of 126 seats. The saffron party alone bagged 60 seats while Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) won 9 seats. The United People s Party Liberal (UPPL) won six seats.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Bharatiya Janata Party President JP Nadda conducted crucial meetings with Sarbananda Sonowal and Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday.
In the first two rounds of meetings, BJP leaders met Sonowal and Sarma separately whereas in the third round of meeting, they met both the leaders together.
Ranjeet Kumar Dass said, The chief minister s name will be announced in the meeting. Four senior leaders of the party - BL Santosh, Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar, BJP national general secretary Arun Singh, party s state in-charge Baijayant Jay Panda - will attend the meeting. We have a single agenda to select the leader of the
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Guwahati (Assam) [India], May 3 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance secured a comfortable majority in Assam Assembly elections paving its way to form the government in the state winning 75 seats of the total 126 constituencies.