Guwahati, Aug. 2 -- Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today sounded the poll bugle for the forthcoming elections to the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) and said that the BJP will contest in all the 40 seats of the council.
The election to the BTC, which is an autonomous council under the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, likely to go for the election on September end. At present the regional political party, United Progressive Party -Liberal (UPPL) --a partner of the BJP led alliance in Assam--is in power
in BTC.
"We want to ensure that every citizen of BTC lives like a first class citizen. We have been supporting the government in BTC. But we do not know how the money is spent on the projects here," he said while addr...