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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AICC screening committee is set to finalise the list of Lok Sabha poll candidates in a day or two. The final list is being finalized by committee chairman and Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in presence of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita.The prepared list would be handed over to Sonia Gandhi for seal of approval in a day or two. The list would contain the candidates for 12 seats. The party won’t field any candidate in Kokrajhar. Panel of candidates for Guwahati would be prepared later.
In a set back for the opposition consensus candidate Haidor Hussain, independent MLA Jatin Mali made it plain on Wednesday that he would vote for the ruling party candidate.He is believed to have decided not to vote for the AGP-sponsored candidate in the Rajya Sabha polls slated for February 7. Two other independent legislators are also expected to vote for the ruling party candidates.
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