URL copied Amit Shah arrives in Guwahati Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah arrived in Guwahati late on Friday, where he would formally launch the ruling saffron party's campaign for next year's Assam assembly polls on Saturday. At the airport, Shah was received by Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Finance and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, BJP's National Vice-President Baijayant Jay Panda, who is also the Assam in-charge for the saffron party, state party President Ranjit Kumar Dass among other leaders. According to Sarma, after attending the series of government and party programmes in Assam, Shah on Sunday would visit Manipur and before leaving Imphal he would lay the foundation stone for the Churachandpur Medical College and meet the civil society leaders.