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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