GUWAHATI: Assam state BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass claimed that BJP would win seven additional seats in upper Assam thanks to the alliance between Congress and Maulana Badruddin Ajmal’s All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF).
“We will get seven more seats. We will get Titabor, Golaghat, Mariani, Dumduma, Nazira, Sivasagr and Naoboicha. Earlier, we did not count these seats. Now it will be additionally added to our tally. So we are happy,” Dass said.
He also predicted that Congress high command would ask Ripun Bora to opt for voluntary retirement after 2021 assembly polls in Assam.