2019 Lok Sabha polls: BJP aims to double tally in Assam
In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP had won seven seats, while its allies AGP and BPF had drawn blank.
Guwahati: The ruling BJP has started working on a strategy to win all the 14 Lok Sabha seats by fine-tuning its alliance with regional Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and Bodoland Peoples Front (BPF) in Assam.
Assam BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass said that the NDA wants to win all the Lok Sabha seats from Assam in the next general elections due in 2019 by keeping its alliance intact.
He said that BJP president Amit Shah has asked the state unit to start preparing for the 2019 poll battle by drawing winning strategies with the AGP and the BPF.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP had won seven seats, while its allies AGP and BPF had drawn blank.
“We’ve begun our organisational work and decided to appoint 3.21 lakh workers to woo voters at the grassroots levels. Our alliance partners have also started organizational works.
Seats sharing with the alliance partners will be decided by the central leadership of the BJP, AGP and BPF,” said Mr Dass who once had serious differences with BPF over formation of party unit in Western Assam’s Kokrajhar district.
Indicating that central leadership of BJP has directed the state party units not to upset the relationship with alliance partners, sources in the BJP said that the BJP, being the leader of the alliance has decided to fine-tune the growing stress among the alliance partners.
It is significant that the BJP president, while addressing a rally of BJP booth unit chiefs in Guwahati, has set a target of 21 seats out of 25 parliamentary constituencies from the Northeast in Lok Sabha polls in 2019.
He asked the party members to work very hard towards achieving this target. Mr Shah said that the BJP would leave no stone unturned to make the Northeast a Congress mukt region.
The BJP-led North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA), which has six chief ministers, MPs, MLAs and representatives of regional parties, NDPP, NPP, Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF), Ganashakti Party and others, also aims at to win 21 out of 25 seats in the next Lok Sabha polls.
The seven states of the Northeast have 24 seats, and BJP-led NDA had won 11 in the last Lok Sabha elections held in 2014.