The BJP Legislature Party in Assam will meet right here on Sunday to elect the subsequent Chief Minister of the state, every week after the ruling alliance gained the meeting elections with a transparent majority, a celebration spokesman mentioned. The assembly is scheduled to start from 11 am and Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar and social gathering General Secretary Arun Singh will likely be current as central observers.
Baijayant Panda, BJP’s Assam in-charge may even be current on the event. Party’s state unit President Ranjeet Kumar Dass visited the legislative meeting this night to evaluation preparations for the legislature social gathering assembly.
He, nonetheless, refused to reveal the main points of the scheduled assembly. The social gathering’s central management had summoned chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, each contenders for the highest put up, to New Delhi on Saturday for discussions on the formation of the subsequent authorities in the state.
A sequence of conferences, lasting for greater than 4 hours, had been held with BJP President J P Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah with the duo, following which Sarma mentioned that the BJP’s legislature social gathering is more likely to meet on Sunday and all questions associated to the subsequent authorities will likely be answered there. Both Sonowal and Sarma had gone collectively to Delhi this morning by a chartered flight and returned tonight together with the central observers.
The BJP had not introduced the identify of the chief minister earlier than the polls and speculations are rife for the final one week on who can be the subsequent chief minister of the state. Sonowal was projected because the chief ministerial candidate throughout the 2016 polls and because the then state BJP President had led the social gathering to victory, forming the primary saffron social gathering authorities in the North East.
Party sources mentioned the identify of the chief minister was anticipated to be proposed by both of the contenders with the social gathering president more likely to second it. The ruling BJP alliance is the primary non-Congress authorities in the state to win the elections for the second consecutive time period.
Of the 126 meeting seats in Assam, the ruling alliance has secured 75 seats with BJP profitable 60 whereas its alliance companions AGP bought 9 seats and UPPL six.
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