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BJP gearing up poll campaign

By Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI, March 14 � The election preparedness of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Assam Pradesh has picked up with several central leaders of the party camping in the State and visiting the constituencies. The saffron party is going to contest in all the 126 Assembly constituencies.

The party has chalked out a detailed constituency - wise programme for the central and State leaders to ensure their presence during the filing of nomination by the candidates. In the last two days, the BJP leaders participated in more than 40 worker and public meetings across the State.

On Monday, Central leader of the party Vinay Katiyar visited Nagaon and Rangia along with Dr BK Jalan, Anjan Deka and Sarbananda Sonowal. Party sources said that senior leader Venkaiah Naidu will be campaigning in the State on March 29, 30 and 31.

The other constituencies visited so far by the Central and senior State leaders are Boko, Dispur, Morigaon, Naobaicha (Laluk), Bihpuria, and Sipajhar.

It needs to be mentioned here that national general secretary of the party Vijay Goel will be present along with several State leaders during the filing of nomination by Margherita constituency candidate Kamakhya Prasad Tasa on March 15.

State president Ranjit Dutta will file his nomination on March 16 for the Behali constituency from which he was elected in the last Assembly election. Goel will be present here along with P Chandra Shekhar, north east organizsing secretary and Sarbananda Sonowal.

The other BJP candidates who will file their papers on March 16 are Dilip Moran for the Doomdooma constituency, Ritubaran Sarma for the Tezpur constituency and Sanjay Kisan for the Tinsukia constituency.

On the other hand, Niranjan Nath will file nomination papers for the Rangapara constituency on March 17. The other candidates who will file their nomination papers on March 17 are Ganesh Kr Limbu for Barchalla, Batas Orang for Dhekiajuli, Kulendra Daulagupu for Haflong (ST) and Gopal Pradhan for Sadiya.

National spokesperson Prakash Javadkar will be in the State on March 16 and 17 and will take part in public meetings in Golaghat and Tezpur. The national general secretary of the party Thawarchand Gehlot will participate in rallies in Hajo, Jagiroad and Khetri on March 17 and 18.

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