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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Amid brisk preparation for finalizing Lok Sabha candidates, Assembly Speaker Pranab Gogoi has revealed that he was dead opposed to the move for allowing BK Handique to seek re election.According to sources, Gogoi, whose son is also in the race for ticket from Jorhat, has written to APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita and chief minister Tarun Gogoi not to help the sitting MP get ticket this time.
Amid widespread resentment over AICC’s move to field UP MP Sanjay Singh in the Rajya Sabha from Assam, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that the party high command has not yet formally allowed him to know the move.But in the same breath, told the reporters in Dispur that he won’t oppose the move. APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita admitted high command’s move to field Dr Singh from Assam.
BPF will contest in Kokrajhar and Mongoldoi in the Lok Sabha poll and will help Congress win other seats.This was what BPF president Hagrama Mohilary told reporters when he accompanied Biswajeet Daimary for filing nomination for the Rajya Sabha polls. He reiterated a strong alliance with Congress and thanked the alliance for allowing Daimary to be re elected.
A brainstorming meeting of the Assam Congress poll panel on Monday will form panels of ticket aspirants for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.To be attended by chief minister Tarun Gogoi and PCC president Bhubneswar Kalita, the meeting is scheduled to take place at 3-30 in the afternoon at the Hotel Greenwoood Resort in Khanapara.The meeting will examine the findings of the observers sent to each of the Lok Sabha constituencies.
Hectic confabulations grip the Asom Gana Parishad for the Rajya Sabh polls.There seems to hardly any chance for the regional party. But the party legislative body is holding a crucial meeting at its headquarters on Monday to discuss the political scenario.Both AIUDF and AGP have been trying to rope in BJP. But of no avail. BJP has given the ruling party an easy walk over citing lack of strength.
Rajya Sabha MP from BPF Biswajeet Daimary has filed his nomination papers on Monday seeking reelection to the Upper House with the help of Congress.Accompanied by BPF president Hagrama Mohilary and Deputy BTC chief Khampha Borgayari, Daimary filed his nomination at 11-30 in the morning before the returning officer Gauranga Prasad Das in Dispur.His term will expire on April 13 along with Bhubneswar Kalita from Congress and Birendra Prasad Baishya from AGP.
Assam Congress has agreed to field Bhubneswar Kalita as the first choice candidate for the upcoming Rajjya Sabha polls. But the third choice candidate has yet to be cleared.Chief minister Tarun Gogoi is holding several rounds of talks with senior party leaders to arrive at a consensus on the third choice candidate after Sonia Gandhi recommended a New Delhi based political leader and former MP Sanjay Singh.A circle of powerful AICC leaders has arrived in Guwahati convince chief minister Tarun Gogoi and APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita.
Assam Congress legislators are holding a meet to chalk out a slew of strategies to put up an outstanding performance in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.The brain storming meet began at 11-30 in the morning at the legislators’ conference in the Assembly House premises. Grievances of a section of legislators are unlikely to figure in the meeting to be presided over by chief minister Tarun Gogoi. Gogoi apprised his fellow legislators of the outcome of the meeting with party vice president Rahul Gandhi.
Amid stalemate over the Rajya Sabha candidates, Congress high command is all set to field a New Delhi based political leader to one of the seats. Top sources told Assam Times that Congress president Sonia Gandhi wants former MP Sanjay Singh’s election to the Rajya Sabha.A circle of powerful AICC leaders has arrived in Guwahati convince chief minister Tarun Gogoi and APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita.Singh is likely to file nominations on Monday afternoon. But the party has yet to finalise the remaining candidate even after allowing BPF to contest for one of the seats.
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