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BJP projects Sarbananda Sonowal as CM candidate in Assam

| | Dec 03, 2015, at 02:42 am
Guwahati, Dec 2 (IBNS) : After being defeated in the Bihar assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to project Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal as its Chief Ministerial candidate for Assam.

BJP’s national general secretary and former RSS leader Ram Madhab said: "We have decided to project a Chief Ministerial candidate ahead of the Assam assembly poll."

“The party had decided Union minister and newly appointed president of Assam BJP unit Sarbananda Sonowal as the Chief Ministerial candidate and we hope the party will form the next government in Assam in 2016,” the top BJP leader said.

“We had declared CM candidate in Delhi and we lost, in Bihar we had not declared and again lost. But we are hopeful in Assam. The situation is different in Bihar and Assam,” Ram Madhab said.

On other hand a top source said that BJP has reached to final pre-poll alliance with Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) in Assam.

A source said that after several rounds of meeting, the party leaders have reached final pre-poll alliance with AGP.

The seat share between the two political parties have not finalized so far.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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