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Final Up to date: February 29, 2024, 23:22 IST
Guwahati [Gauhati], India
Numerous these seats that the BJP has focused for enhancing its prospects after unsuccessfully contesting. (Representational picture/PTI)
The AGP will contest from Barpeta and Dhubri, whereas UPPL will subject its candidate in Kokrajhar. The allies will assist one another’s candidates in all of the 14 constituencies in Assam, Sarma mentioned
The BJP will contest 11 seats within the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls in Assam, leaving three for its allies Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the United Individuals’s Get together Liberal (UPPL), Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma mentioned on Thursday.
Among the many different northeastern states, it should assist the NDPP candidate in Nagaland, whereas the main points are being labored out within the different states, Sarma, who can also be the convenor of the BJP-led North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA), mentioned.
The AGP will contest from Barpeta and Dhubri, whereas UPPL will subject its candidate in Kokrajhar. The allies will assist one another’s candidates in all of the 14 constituencies in Assam, Sarma mentioned.
“Yesterday, BJP state chief Bhabesh Kalita and I had a gathering with our nationwide president J P Nadda, Union Residence minister Amit Shah and our nationwide normal secretary B L Santosh, throughout which seat-sharing was mentioned,” he informed a press convention on the get together headquarters right here.
He mentioned UPPL had requested for the Kokrajhar seat, which the BJP agreed to.
”The AGP, which has its base throughout the state, needed extra seats. However I conveyed to them the request of our central management to contest from two seats this time, they usually have obliged us,” the CM mentioned.
”Of the entire 14 seats, we’re optimistic of profitable 11. Within the different three additionally, we are going to struggle tooth and nail,” he mentioned.
The BJP has 9 MPs within the outgoing Lok Sabha from the state, whereas the AGP and UPPL don’t have any illustration.
The Congress holds three seats and the AIUDF one, whereas one other is with an impartial candidate.
Sarma mentioned the BJP’s parliamentary board will finalise the listing of its get together candidates, including that no ”report card” is taken from the sitting MPs and candidates are determined by means of ”open dialogue”.
He mentioned that some sitting MPs have expressed the need to not contest polls and quite dedicate extra time to get together actions, and therefore, few new faces may very well be anticipated.
Requested about purported tussle between Congress MPs Pradyut Bordoloi and Gaurav Gogoi over Nagaon constituency, Sarma mentioned, ”The Nagaon seat has been fragmented on account of delimitation. Who contests from there for the Congress is for the get together to resolve.” Bordoloi at the moment holds the Nagaon seat, whereas Gogoi represents neighbouring Kaliabor, a serious portion of which has turn into a part of newly-created Kaziranga constituency post-delimitation.
On the projection of Nagaon as a minority-dominated seat, the CM mentioned, ”It shouldn’t be known as so. It’s the birthplace of Srimanta Sankardeva (Vaishnavite saint). I don’t need to defame a spot which is sacred for us.”.
”We shouldn’t model a spot as majority or minority-dominated one,” he added.
In Nagaland, the BJP will assist its ally Nationalist Democratic Progressive Get together (NDPP) candidate, Sarma mentioned.
In Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur, discussions are underway, the NEDA convenor added.
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