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Who Will Head Assam As Next CM? Sarbananda Sonowal, Himanta Sarma Meet Central BJP Leaders in Delhi
As per reports, Sonowal and Sarma are expected to have a meeting with BJP president JP Nadda, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP general BL Santhosh and others on Saturday.
New Delhi: Even after scoring a landslide victory in the recently concluded Assam Assembly Elections 2021, a major decision on the chief minister has not yet been decided by the Central leadership of the BJP. For that matter, Sarbananda Sonowal and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma were called by the BJP central leadership to New Delhi to discuss the leadership issue of the next government.
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Both Himanta Biswa Sarma and Sarbananda Sonawal separately met party president JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the national capital on Saturday.
Though both leaders from Assam reached Delhi on Saturday morning it was Sarma who reached Nadda’s residence first to meet him and BJP general secretary (Organisation) BL Santhosh. They were later joined by Amit Shah. After Sarma left, Sonowal met the BJP’s top brass.
Delhi: Assam's caretaker CM Sarbananda Sonowal & his Cabinet colleague Himanta Biswa Sarma leave BJP chief JP Nadda's residence after a meeting.
"BJP Legislative Party meet may take place in Guwahati tomorrow. Answers of all questions will come out of that meeting," says Sarma. pic.twitter.com/63yY9vnsux
— ANI (@ANI) May 8, 2021
Talks related to formation of the next government in Assam and who will be the chief minister dominated the meetings.
Sonowal, who belongs to Assam’s indigenous Sonowal-Kachari tribals, and Sarma, the convenor of the North East Democratic Alliance, both are contenders for the top post of the Assam government.
The BJP had not announced a chief ministerial candidate before the Assembly polls in Assam. In the 2016 Assembly polls, the BJP had projected Sonowal as its chief ministerial candidate and won, forming the first saffron party government in the northeast.
This time, the party has been maintaining that it would decide who would be the next chief minister of Assam after the elections. In the results announced for the 126-member Assam assembly last Sunday, the BJP won 60 seats while its alliance partners AGP got nine seats and UPPL six.
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