Assam election: Gogoi meets Soren in Ranchi
RANCHI, March 13 -- Assam Congress chief Gaurav Gogoi, along with other senior party leaders met Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren here on Thursday and discussed a possible pre-poll alliance and seat sharing for the upcoming assembly elections in the north-eastern state, people aware of the development said.
The development comes two days after Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) president Hemant Soren addressed an impressive rally in Biswanath district on Tuesday besides attending Iftar celebrations.
Addressing the rally hosted jointly by the JMM and the newly-formed Jai Bharat Party (JBP), which announced an alliance with JMM to contest around 40 seats in the elections, the Jharkhand chief minister called for tribal unity and appealed to the community to exercise their democratic rights judiciously in the upcoming assembly elections. This was the second such rally of Soren in Assam, with the first being on February 1.
The JMM is the lead partner in the JMM-Congress-RJD combined INDIA bloc government in Jharkhand led by Chief Minister Hemant Soren. The Congress, Assam's main opposition party, is eyeing a comeback to wrest power from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which has governed the state for a decade....
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