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.
With political parties in Assam busy with candidate selection and campaigning for the ensuing Assembly polls in the state, the Election Commission on Friday issued notification for the second phase of polling in 39 constituencies, officials .
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Congress decentralises candidate selection for Assembly elections
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The Congress is changing the way it selects candidates for the Assembly elections this time, a leader familiar with the development says.
Instead of short-listing candidates in Delhi, the selection or screening panels are moving to the States to make the process more participatory and based on feedback, even from the voters. In a State like Assam, the first list can come out early as local leaders plan to seek approval from the party’s central election committee through a Zoom meeting.
The change in selection procedure seems to be the result of a letter sent by the group of 23 dissenters (G-23) to party president Sonia Gandhi last August, questioning why the party “high command” in Delhi appoints even district- and block-level functionaries.
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