Opposition Presidential nominee Yashwant Sinha was scheduled to arrive here on Wednesday to seek support from MLAs and MPs of opposition parties in Assam for the July 18 polls, state Congress President Bhupen Bora said here.
Sinha will arrive here in the afternoon tomorrow by a chartered flight and meet opposition Congress MPs, MLAs, independent MLA Akhil Gogoi, CPI(M) MLA Manoranjan Talukdar and independent Rajya Sabha MP Ajit Kumar Bhuyan, Bora told reporters hereeon Tuesday
NDA Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu had arrived here last week to campaign in the North Eastern states and had met the Assam MPs and legislators of the ruling BJP and its allies the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the United Peoples’ Party Liberal (UPPL) here on July 7 to seek support for the polls.
In the 126-member state legislative assembly, the ruling NDA has 79 seats with 63 from BJP, nine from AGP and seven from the UPPL.
AIUDF Chief Badruddin Ajmal said that his party will also support Murmu.
The party has Ajmal as the lone MP in the Lok Sabha besides 15 MLAs in the state legislature.
Among the opposition parties, there are 27 MLAs from the Congress, three from BPF and one from the CPI(M) while there is an independent candidate.
The BPF has lent its support to the government in the assembly but is yet to enter into a political alliance formally and has extended support to Murmu.
In the Lok Sabha, Assam has nine BJP MPs, three from the Congress, an independent and one from AIUDF.
In the Rajya Sabha, the ruling NDA has six MPs, including four from BJP, one each from UPPL and AGP , and one independent.
