Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma speaks earlier than nomination submitting of BJP candidate Bijuli Kalita Medhi for the Lok Sabha elections, at Khanapara in Guwahati, Friday, April 19, 2024.
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GUWAHATI:
After ‘Modi ka assure’, the voters in poll-bound Assam has been showered with ‘Mama ka guarantee’.
Mama, which means maternal uncle, is a moniker for Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Campaigning in western Assam’s Nalbari on April 17, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned he got here to the State with a assure (to fulfil the BJP’s guarantees) in 2024 after hope in 2014 and belief in 2019.
On Thursday, the Chief Minister added his guarantee to the Prime Minister’s assure for Bengali Hindus to get citizenship and scholarship for feminine college students amongst different pledges made throughout an election rally in Udharbond underneath the Silchar Lok Sabha constituency.
The BJP has fielded Transport Minister Parimal Suklabaidya from the constituency, which is reserved for the Scheduled Castes. Polling within the constituency is within the second part on April 26.
Mr. Sarma claimed Congress was within the intensive care unit and unlikely to win any election for the subsequent 50 years. He additionally slammed the Trinamool Congress for a reign of terror in West Bengal and discrepancies in social welfare schemes.
“We are going to create jobs for teens, present larger schooling alternatives for ladies, bridge the divide between the (Bengali-dominated) Barak Valley and (Assamese-dominated) Brahmaputra Valley, and grant citizenship for Bengali Hindus,” he mentioned.
He additionally assured month-to-month money advantages underneath a State authorities scheme for 26 lakh households in Assam.
Mr Suklabaidya’s major rivals are Radheyshyam Biswas of the Trinamool and Surya Kanta Sarkar of Congress.
Silchar is one in all 4 parliamentary constituencies in Assam the place Congress and the Trinamool are rivals regardless of being constituents of the INDIA bloc. The opposite seats are Barpeta, Kokrajhar, and Lakhimpur.
