PM to visit Assam on February 14 for third time in three months

Guwahati

Prime Minister Narendra Modi volition sojourn Assam connected February 14 to inaugurate respective projects and code Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said connected Sunday (January 25, 2026). This volition beryllium the Prime Minister’s 3rd sojourn to the poll-bound State successful little than 3 months.

Mr. Sarma said that the Prime Minister volition archetypal inaugurate the Kumar Bhaskarvarman Bridge implicit the Brahmaputra, connecting Guwahati and North Guwahati, earlier opening the impermanent field of the Indian Institute of Management, Guwahati, and the handing implicit of 100 Centre-funded electrical buses to the State.

“Later successful the day, the Prime Minister volition code a gathering of our enactment functionaries. Three BJP workers from each of immoderate 25,000 polling booths volition be the meeting,” the Chief Minister said.

Pre-poll outreach driv of BJP

The Prime Minister whitethorn sojourn eastbound Assam’s Dibrugarh, depending connected however his docket is worked out, Mr. Sarma told journalists aft launching the BJP’s video vans arsenic portion of a pre-poll outreach thrust crossed the State.

“These vans volition beryllium deployed crossed Assam astir six weeks up of the election. They volition beryllium utilized to promote radical from each sections of society, including sportspersons and taste personalities, to stock their views,” helium said.

‘Toll connected trucks, buses only’

He slammed the Congress enactment for what helium called “misinformation-driven” politics, referring to allegations that toll charges would beryllium levied connected each conveyance utilizing the caller bridge. “The toll volition use lone to trucks and buses,” helium asserted.

The Chief Minister accused the Congress of attempting to consolidate communal enactment by “warming up to Miyas (a pejorative word to mean Bengali-speaking Muslims, often perceived to beryllium Bangladeshis),” claiming that a caller programme of the Grand Old Party turned retired to beryllium a spiritual gathering alternatively than a governmental one. “Nearly 600 of the 750 radical who joined the Congress astatine the lawsuit belonged to the Miya community,” helium said.

Mr. Sarma besides said the BJP would enactment retired the seat-sharing look with its allies wrong the NDA framework. There is speculation that the BJP whitethorn allocate less seats to its ally, the Asom Gana Parishad, successful the upcoming elections to the 126-member Assembly than successful 2021.

He said discussions betwixt the 2 parties were astatine a last stage, and that the seat-sharing statement would beryllium announced soon.