Assam polls in going to held in two phases on April 4 and 11and result would be count on May 19. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to join BJP's campaigning trail with five election rallies in just short hours in Assam today with five election rallies in just few hours. The BJP is contesting on 91 seats in the 126-member Assembly.
The party has given 24 seats to its ally Asom Gana Parishad, while the Bodoland People's Front and two small parties will be contesting on the remaining seats. And Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal is electing for Assam Chief Minister.
"Congress tried to destroy and change the demography of the state by encouraging infiltration. Congress has been doing it for many decades and took no action," Union Minister Arun Jaitley said attacking the Gogoi government while releasing BJP's Vision Document for Assam on Friday. Addressing an election rally in state's Sibsagar yesterday, BJP President Amit Shah targeted the Congress-led state government "responsible" for "people remaining below the poverty line, 42 per cent not receiving clean drinking water, no electricity, no proper facilities for adivasi tea garden workers, increased maternal and child mortality rate, and 19,000 incidents of atrocities against women".
Promising corruption-free government in state,Mr Shah had said, "Gogoi cannot give a government that will help the poor, only BJP can. Assam's people gave him 15 years. But Assam remained where it was or went backwards when the rest of the country progressed."