Blast near Pranab’s Guwahati rally kills one

About an hour before his election rally,Mukherjee told a press conference that terrorists might try to cause “some mischief” during the elections. “While the Government will take utmost care in facing the challenges of threat from terrorists,what is more important is that the electors have not allowed mischief makers to disturb elections,” he told media persons.

“I have full confidence in the electors. They have not allowed mischief makers to disturb polls. The electorate has strongly refuted such threats in Jammu and Kashmir despite threats by terrorists and boycott calls of the Hurriyat,” Mukherjee said.

He also described influx from Bangladesh as a major problem and said it had assumed alarming proportions in Assam.

His rally went off undisturbed despite the blast. Mukherjee later addressed another election meeting at Paltanbazar,close to the Guwahati railway station.