Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal Tuesday claimed BJP would win all 25 Lok Sabha seats in the Northeast. (File)
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal Tuesday claimed BJP would win all 25 Lok Sabha seats in the Northeast in 2019 general elections and form the government at the Centre for a second term under Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a thumping majority. Addressing a press conference at the state BJP headquarters, Sonowal said with the defeat of the Grand Old Party in Mizoram, the northeast region had now become “Congress-mukt”.
Asked if BJP’s poll debacle in Assembly elections of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram would affect their Lok Sabha prospects, Sonowal said, “People will vote for BJP for good governance. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be PM again. There is no doubt about it”.
Welcoming the Supreme Court verdict that ruled out a court-monitored probe on Rafale deal, Sonowal said the judgment had proven Congress-sponsored lies against BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government.
“The Supreme Court verdict has proven that Rahul Gandhi and his associates were spreading lies about central government. There was a typographical error and the Central government has submitted an affidavit in the Supreme Court for correction. I strongly demand Rahul Gandhi to seek apology before the nation and disclose his sources of misinformation campaign”, Sonowal said.
Subscriber Only Stories
He also claimed Congress governments were involved in corruption since the time of Jawaharlal Nehru and it continued under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
“This party (Congress) got opportunity to rule the nation for more than five decades but they proved to be the most corrupt party in the country. Right from Pandit Nehru regime till the last Manmohan Singh regime, if you go through the history of Congress, then in every tenure you will discover corrupt practices, either in this deal or that deal”, Sonowal claimed.
Sonowal’s Tripura trip is part of a previous announcement by BJP president Amit Shah where he said that BJP CMs would visit other states to hold 70 press conferences about Rafale deal in different parts of the country.
- The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards.
© IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd
First published on: 18-12-2018 at 05:59:02 pm
Subscribers Reading Now
Most Popular
Latest News
IND vs ZIM: Shahbaz Ahmed replaces injured Washington Sundar for Zimbabwe series
Former PM Morrison took on extra powers in secret: Australian PM Anthony Albanese
Explained: Police to visit Ranveer Singh’s home, what obscenity laws did he break?
Watch video: Mother saves son from being attacked by a snake in the nick of time
‘A creation manifested by our love’: Bipasha Basu, Karan Singh Grover announce pregnancy
Google threatens employees with possible layoffs, ‘blood on streets’: Report
Class 12 student returning after I-Day celebrations run over by Chennai MTC bus
Delhi: Man fires at mother-in-law over feud with wife, arrested
In between Varisu shoots, Vijay watches a movie in Hyderabad. See pictures
Omicron sub-lineages continue to be dominant Covid strains in Karnataka
Gippy Grewal on why composers were asked not to release Sidhu Moosewala’s songs: ‘His parents are left with only…’
Anthony Joshua to use lessons learned from Oleksandr Usyk defeat in rematch
