BJP vows to win 12 Lok Sabha seats in Assam

Guwahati | Friday | 22nd February, 2019

Summary:

Addressing party workers, chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal vowed to win 12 Lok Sabha seats from the state in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. In the 2014 election , the saffron party had won 7 seats out of the 14 Lok Sabha seats, followed by Congress and AIUDF with 3 seats each, while one seat went to an Independent candidate. Dibrugarh: With the aim of galvanising its support base for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, BJP on Thursday organised a mass rally at the Chowkidinghee playground. The rally was addressed by chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, BJP’s Assam-in-charge Mahendra Singh and state finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.Thousands of saffron party workers from Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur and Jorhat Lok Sabha constituencies participated in the rally. In Assam, we have seen that already 14 districts have become minority-dominated due to influx of illegal Bangladeshi migrants..