BJP president is on stock taking visit to Guwahati nine months ahead of the assembly polls.
Immediately after landing at the Borjhar airport, he along with 10 other top leaders straightly arrived at the Machkhowa ITA to address the convention of the party’s north eastern leaders.
Later in the day he would met the state leadership to take stock of the state’s pre poll political landscape.
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Wrong News. After landing at Borjhar LGBI Airport, he went to Hotel Rituraj where he conducted a personal meeting for more than one hour and then around 12:10 proceeded to ITA Machkhowa from where he left for Delhi.
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Giving a new twist to the ongoing Rajya Sabha poll on Friday, AIUDF has informed that its legislator Ataur Rahman Majarbhuyan will be available in Guwahati to cast his vote.AIUDF leaders told Assam Times that the legislator from Katigarh who is on the way to Mumbai from Abu Dhabi is arriving in the city in the afternoon.His vote is most crucial to help Opposition consensus candidate Haidor Hussain win. Majarbhuyan told his PA over telephone on Thursday that he won’t be able to cast his vote in time. This was what gave Congress and BPF a sigh of relief.
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Congress legislators will vote Bhubneswar Kalita as their first choice candidate. The second preference would in favour of Dr Sanjay Sinh. BPF candidate Biswajeet Daimary would get vote as the third choice candidate.This was more or less of what party legislators decided on Thursday evening after Majarbhuyan’s absence was confirmed by the legislator himself.Chaired by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, the joint meeting was attended by APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita. Bu sources told Assam Times that choice of candidate does not arise when the Opposition candidate falls short of two or three voters.
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