Sarbananda Sonowal, Himanta Biswa Sarma will contest Assam Assembly polls: Jay Panda ANI | Updated: Mar 06, 2021 16:08 IST
By Kumar Gaurav
New Delhi [India], March 5 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Baijayant Jay Panda on Friday said that both Assam Chief MinisterSarbananda Sonowal and state minister Himanta Biswa Sarma are popular leaders and both will contest the Assembly polls.
Assam BJP in-charge and party s vice president Baijayant Jay Panda in an interview with ANI said that the list of the candidates for the three-phased state Assembly polls will be out soon. Our top leaders will contest the polls. Both Sonowal and Sarma are very popular and have a good image among the public. They will definitely contest the polls. There is no problem in the state under the leadership of CM Sonowal and Minister Sarma, he said.
Assam: Sarbananda Sonowal will contest the assembly election from Majauli seat
Guwahati:
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal will contest the assembly election from Majauli seat, the BJP said today while releasing a list of candidates for two phases of the three-phase election.
Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, widely known as a key BJP strategist for the north-east, will contest from Jalukbari, a seat that he currently holds.
Mr Sarma was not keen to contest the election, but the party decided that Mr Sonowal would not be projected as the chief ministerial candidate and the BJP would fight the election under the joint leadership of Mr Sonowal and Mr Sarma, sources have said.
The Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will meet on Thursday and is likely to finalise its first list of candidates for Assembly polls in Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry.
BJP s state unit chief Ranjit Dass, AGP President and state minister Atul Bora, UPPL chief Pramod Boro, BJP leader and state minister Himanta Biswa Sarma also attended the meeting.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has begun the process of finalising candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in four states West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Assam and Union Territory Puducherry. According to BJP s West bengal unit chief Dilip Ghosh, the party s Core Committee of the pa