GUWAHATI: Soon after BJP president Amit Shah put the brakes on Himanta Biswa Sarma's Delhi ambitions, the birthday celebration strongman hit the road on Saturday to campaign for ally Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) at Kaliabor - the seat his former mentor-turned-bete noire Tarun Gogoi's son Gaurav Gogoi is contesting for re-election as a Congress candidate.
For now, Himanta has put his personal need to contest the Tezpur Lok Sabha seat on the back-burner, acceding to the birthday celebration central management's decision to head via its personal instincts relatively than that of the state-level management. Himanta mentioned he does now not need to talk about the subject to any extent further since he has already accepted the decision of the birthday celebration president. "The party has entrusted us with the responsibility to get maximum seats in the region," he added.
Regional parties have always performed the most important role in the region's politics and feature regularly emerged stronger than nationwide parties. The BJP-led North East Democratic Alliance (Neda), which Himanta had urged, had began out sturdy in 2016. Himanta used to be also the brains at the back of the rising footprint of BJP and Neda in the northeast since then - expanding from Assam to Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland and, after all, Mizoram. By now, ties between the constituent parties have grown susceptible. Barring AGP, Bodoland People's Front and Nationalist Democratic People's Party, all Neda partners have either selected to contest the Lok Sabha election on their very own or quit the alliance. The BJP central management wants Himanta to beef up the saffron birthday celebration and revive Neda's possibilities in the region.
Himanta is assured he can ship. "We believe BJP and Neda will win 19-20 of the 25 Lok Sabha seats in the region (including Sikkim)," he mentioned. There is a tight-rope walk forward although. Given the tenuous ties with AGP, just stitched again in position, for instance, BJP has decided that no election banners and posters will elevate the lotus image in seats where AGP is contesting. "We don't want to confuse voters by putting our symbol on AGP's posters. Even posters featuring Narendra Modi won't have the lotus symbol in these constituencies but the elephant (AGP's symbol)," Sarma mentioned.
Kicking off the campaign on behalf of AGP for the Kaliabor seat at Bokakhat, Himanta mentioned, "BJP workers have to labour harder than AGP workers to win this seat. Our partner (in 2016 assembly election), Ganashakti, will also work with us. Our fight is not against Congress but it is a fight to ensure that the indigenous Assamese stand with their heads held high." Kaliabor has a sizeable Muslim voter base, which can swing the election end result in the event that they vote as one bloc. With this in mind, Himanta appealed to the electorate of the constituency to "remain united" so nobody can deny the AGP candidate, Moni Madhab Mahanta, a victory. He is the more youthful brother of AGP working president and water assets minister Keshab Mahanta.
Immediately after Kaliabor, Himanta moved to neighbouring Jorhat constituency to campaign for birthday celebration's new face Topon Kumar Gogoi, a minister, and then to Dibrugarh.
For now, Himanta has put his personal need to contest the Tezpur Lok Sabha seat on the back-burner, acceding to the birthday celebration central management's decision to head via its personal instincts relatively than that of the state-level management. Himanta mentioned he does now not need to talk about the subject to any extent further since he has already accepted the decision of the birthday celebration president. "The party has entrusted us with the responsibility to get maximum seats in the region," he added.
Regional parties have always performed the most important role in the region's politics and feature regularly emerged stronger than nationwide parties. The BJP-led North East Democratic Alliance (Neda), which Himanta had urged, had began out sturdy in 2016. Himanta used to be also the brains at the back of the rising footprint of BJP and Neda in the northeast since then - expanding from Assam to Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland and, after all, Mizoram. By now, ties between the constituent parties have grown susceptible. Barring AGP, Bodoland People's Front and Nationalist Democratic People's Party, all Neda partners have either selected to contest the Lok Sabha election on their very own or quit the alliance. The BJP central management wants Himanta to beef up the saffron birthday celebration and revive Neda's possibilities in the region.
Himanta is assured he can ship. "We believe BJP and Neda will win 19-20 of the 25 Lok Sabha seats in the region (including Sikkim)," he mentioned. There is a tight-rope walk forward although. Given the tenuous ties with AGP, just stitched again in position, for instance, BJP has decided that no election banners and posters will elevate the lotus image in seats where AGP is contesting. "We don't want to confuse voters by putting our symbol on AGP's posters. Even posters featuring Narendra Modi won't have the lotus symbol in these constituencies but the elephant (AGP's symbol)," Sarma mentioned.
Kicking off the campaign on behalf of AGP for the Kaliabor seat at Bokakhat, Himanta mentioned, "BJP workers have to labour harder than AGP workers to win this seat. Our partner (in 2016 assembly election), Ganashakti, will also work with us. Our fight is not against Congress but it is a fight to ensure that the indigenous Assamese stand with their heads held high." Kaliabor has a sizeable Muslim voter base, which can swing the election end result in the event that they vote as one bloc. With this in mind, Himanta appealed to the electorate of the constituency to "remain united" so nobody can deny the AGP candidate, Moni Madhab Mahanta, a victory. He is the more youthful brother of AGP working president and water assets minister Keshab Mahanta.
Immediately after Kaliabor, Himanta moved to neighbouring Jorhat constituency to campaign for birthday celebration's new face Topon Kumar Gogoi, a minister, and then to Dibrugarh.
Out of L ok Sabha election race, Himanta Biswa Sarma campaigns for Neda ally AGP
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