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He said that this mandate is also a recognition of the efforts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the upliftment of the North East region.
He also indicated that two to three opposition MLAs may switch to the BJP and bypolls are likely to be held in the seats from where they were elected, along with the Majuli assembly seat, which was vacated by Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. Had given.
“I humbly acknowledge the love and blessings of the people of Assam. The margin of victory has increased significantly as all the seats have been won by a margin of more than 25,000 votes. These are the records in some seats.
Not only in Assam, the NEDA (the regional wing of the NDA with Sarma as its convener) has won all the seats in the by-elections held in Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland. “This is again a proof that the people of the region support Modi in his development work in the region,” Sarma said.
“The mandate is a testimony to the development work done by the NDA government in Assam in the last five-and-a-half months since the elections and a recognition of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s effort to uplift the Northeast,” he said.
After NDA’s victory in Assam, all the alliance partners- BJP, AGP and UPPL will have to work with more zeal for the development of the state. “We can’t relax, we can’t be complacent. We have to work at a faster pace now. We will fulfill all the promises made during the election campaign.”
BJP candidates Phanidhar Talukdar, Rupjyoti Kurmi and Sushant Borgohain won Bhabnipur, Mariani and Thaura seats respectively. All three were elected opposition MLAs in the March-April elections this year, but later resigned and joined the saffron party. Allies UPPL’s Jiron Basumatary and Jolene Daimary won the Gosaigaon and Tamulpur seats respectively.
With these victories in the bypolls, the strength of the BJP in the 126-member Assam Assembly has gone up to 62 and that of the UPPL to seven. NDA’s other ally AGP, which did not field any candidate this time, has nine MLAs.
The opposition Congress has 27 MLAs, AIUDF 15, BPF three and CPI(M) one. There is also an independent. Asked whether more opposition MLAs in the state would join the saffron party, Sarma hit back saying if there was no political compulsion, everyone would have done so.
“The way our ministers and leaders worked, it would encourage many people to join the BJP. All I can say is that people want by-polls in two to three more constituencies. I can’t say much more… but we can’t continue with regular by-polls. Now there will be by-elections in Majuli.
Sarma said that he expected to see BJP MLAs in all the 126 seats of the Assam Assembly in his lifetime. “That day will surely come,” he said. The Chief Minister also announced that the municipal elections in the state would be held in February 2022 if the situation of Kovid-19 did not worsen.
On the demographic change in the voting pattern during the by-elections held on October 30, Sarma said that the BJP has got a large number of votes in Bhabnipur and Gosaigaon seats, where minority voters are in large numbers.
“During the campaign I focused only on development. I also said that the eviction in Gorukhuti was justified. The agricultural project there (for which the evictions were done) is the beginning of self-reliance. In future, we will work for all tribes and communities so that Assam is among the top five states of India.”
In September, two people were killed and several others, including nine policemen, were injured in violence during an eviction drive by the police at Gorukuthi in Darrang district. The Chief Minister stressed that the eviction drive would continue in the state and the encroached land in places like Lumding Reserve Forest, Barchalla and Dhekiajuli would be removed through dialogue.
He claimed that the alleged encroachers are from places like Baghbar and Jania, where they already had land, but lost them to some “zamindar” type of zamindars. “We are now thinking of starting the land survey in the four-chapori (sandbar) areas and this will clear many doubts. A handful of people have occupied hundreds of bighas of land and displaced poor people, who moved to other places and occupied the land,” Sarma said.
Citing encroachment, he said that the alleged illegal settlers in Lumding Reserve Forest had come inside a large part of it for ginger cultivation and were brought by three big traders.
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