The BJP will contest the elections in the key state in alliance with Apna Dal and Nishad Party, party president JP Nadda said in a press conference on Wednesday.
Rawat said that the state got a young leadership under Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami. He had resigned from the post of Chief Minister in March 2021 less than a year before the Assembly polls.
While the Congress-led administration of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi now governs the state, the BJP and Aam Aadmi Party will be surprise candidates in this election, even though the Congress looks to retain power.
Interestingly, the Samajwadi Party in the year 2016 had similarly launched four perfumes to mark four years in power.
Himanta Biswa Sarma was unanimously elected as leader of the BJP legislature party during a meeting in Guwahati on Sunday. Former chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal proposed Sarma's name.
Stalin was on Tuesday unanimously elected as legislature party leader and he is likely to be sworn-in as Chief Minister on 7 May.
The defeat in the Kerala assembly election has plunged the Congress into crisis and put senior state leaders Ramesh Chennithala, Oommen Chandy and Mullapally Ramachandran in a spot of bother.
"I accept the verdict in Nandigram - it is not a big deal. Don't worry," said the Chief Minister, declaring, however, that she would approach the court over "mischief".
If democracy were to thrive in its truest sense, the sanctity of elections must be inviolable. In doing so, the Election Commission will have to be more robust and impervious to any political attacks or judicial interference or superintendence, observes Om Pathak.
Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress looks all set to hold power in West Bengal, shaking off a tough challenge from BJP.
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