BREAKING: BJP to contest from 90 seats in Assam polls; spares 26 to the AGP, 8 to UPPL

GUWAHATI: The ruling BJP will contest from 90 seats in the Assam assembly elections and will spare 26 seats to its ally Asom Gana Parishad (AGP).

This was decided in BJP central election committee meeting of the BJP-led alliance’s stakeholders with the BJP leadership, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda, in New Delhi this evening.

The newly floated United People’s Party-Liberal (UPPL) will field candidates in eight seats in the 126-member house.

The final seat sharing will be announced tomorrow.

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Meanwhile, peeved over the reported candidature of Shyam Kanu Mahanta as AGP candidate from Teok constituency in Jorhat district of Upper Assam, BJP workers this evening staged a demonstration at Teok.

BJP members raised slogans such as “Ranjeet Dass xusiaar (Beware Ranjeet Dass)”, “Himanta Biswa Murdabad” on National Highway 37.

The constituency has been an AGP stronghold since 1985 and Renupama Rajkhowa of the party is the sitting MLA.

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Similarly, BJP workers also staged protests at Dergaon over reported candidature of AGP’s Bhabendra Nath Bharali for a second time.

Members of all four zones of the constituency staged a protest this evening and appealed to the party leadership not to allow the AGP contest from the seat.

They alleged that Bharali was never bothered about  any issues and problems of the people of the constituency over the past five years.