Guwahati: The opposition presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha will visit in Guwahati on Wednesday to solicit support for his bid in the July 18 elections.
Assam Congress President Bhupen Bora said that Sinha would seek the support of MLAs and MPs from other parties in the state.
Sinha will fly here this afternoon on a chartered aeroplane in order to meet with opposition Congress MLAs and MPs, independent MLA Akhil Gogoi, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) MLA Manoranjan Talukdar, and independent Rajya Sabha MP Ajit Kumar Bhuyan.
It may be noted the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu visited to Assam last week to meet with lawmakers from the ruling BJP and its allies the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and United Peoples’ Party Liberal (UPPL) in order to solicit their support.
The BJP holds 63 seats, the AGP nine seats, and the UPPL seven seats, giving the ruling NDA a total of 79 seats in the 126-member state assembly.
The leader of the All-India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), MP Badruddin Ajmal, has meantime declared that Murmu will receive support from his party, which has 15 MLAs in the legislature.
The opposition is made up of 27 Congress MLAs, three from the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), one from the CPI-M, and an independent candidate.
However, the BPF, which has not yet formally allied with the government, has already vowed to support Murmu of the NDA.
Assam has nine MPs from BJP, three from Congress one from AIUDF and an independent candidate in the Lok Sabha, while in the Rajya Sabha, ruling NDA has six MPs – four from BJP and one each from UPPL and AGP and an independent candidate.