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The Assam portion of the Bharatiya Janata Party connected Saturday, February 28, 2026, flagged disconnected the ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’, a rally aimed astatine seeking the “blessings” of the radical crossed 50 Assembly constituencies successful the cardinal and eastbound parts of the State.
Assam, wherever Assembly elections are apt successful April, has 126 seats. The eastbound fractional of the State has been the astir fertile portion for the BJP since the 2016 elections.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma initiated the yatra from the Gupteshwar Temple astatine Dhekiajuli successful north-central Assam’s Sonitpur district. The State’s Health Minister, Ashok Singhal, represents the Dhekiajuli constituency.
“Our nonsubjective is to question the blessings of the radical for the upcoming elections, transportation the connection of development, bully governance, and payment schemes to their doorsteps,” the Chief Minister said, urging enactment workers to intensify grassroots-level engagement during the campaign.
Party leaders said the BJP aims to scope retired to astatine slightest 1 lakh radical each time crossed respective districts till March 9, the concluding time of the yatra. The archetypal halt of the yatra was Balipara, astir 45 km eastbound of Dhekiajuli.
Participating successful the programme, the BJP’s Lakhimpur MP Pradan Baruah said collecting feedback from the radical astir the party’s show was a large constituent of the yatra. This would assistance the BJP fine-tune its strategies, helium added.
“Several elder nationalist and State enactment leaders volition travel the Chief Minister during antithetic phases of the journey,” helium said.
The BJP, which won 60 seats successful 2021, is aiming to unafraid astatine slightest 64, the elemental bulk people successful the House. The enactment has acceptable a people of much than 100 seats for the National Democratic Alliance, which bagged 75 seats successful 2021.
