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The Congress has booked a few hotels across Assam to insulate its candidates.
The Congress has booked a few hotels across Assam to insulate its candidates from possible poaching by the BJP ahead of the declaration of Assam Assembly elections results on May 2, party sources said on Saturday.
Congress leaders on Saturday met at a hotel in Guwahati for a closed-door meeting with their candidates.
Sources said that the party has been planning to keep the candidates somewhere in Guwahati, Tezpur and Kaziranga on April 22 and not let them be in touch with the world beyond.
However, senior Congress leader Jitendra Singh dismissed the reports of hotel bookings and said that their alliance will get a big majority .
Former Assam Chief Minister Bhumidhar Barman dies at 91 after prolonged illness
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Barman s first term as the chief minister lasted from April 22 to May 14, 1996 when his predecessor Hiteswar Saikia died. He was again made the chief minister in 2010 when then CM Tarun Gogoi had gone to Mumbai for his heart surgery.
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Barman was 89 years and suffering from old age related ailments. He was MLA for seven terms and had held important departments in Former Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi s cabinet. Gogoi was Chief Minister from 2001-2016.
He was first elected in 1967. Burman was known for his strong grassroots connect and had in past faced three attacks of militant outfits, ULFA.