Who Will Become Assam's CM? Sonowal & Himanta To Meet Top BJP Leaders In Delhi As Uncertainty Persists

Five days after the Assembly election results were declared and the CMs of some states took their oath, Assam still does not know who is going to lead the government.

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Dispur: The Bharatiya Janata Party continues to face the chief ministerial conundrum in Assam. The Central BJP leadership has called both Sarbananda Sonowal and Himanta Biswa Sarma to Delhi. 

The meeting is scheduled for around 10 am.

Both the leaders might travel on the same chattered aircraft from Guwahati due to no commercial flights early morning. 

Five days after the Assembly election results were declared and the CMs of some states took their oath, Assam still does not know who is going to lead the government.

The BJP has not been able to choose between incumbent CM Sarbananda Sonowal and party strongman Himanta Biswa Sarma. 

Apart from Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, which is a Union Territory, went to the polls. The new government has been installed in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. It is delayed in Kerala due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Five days later, Sonowal appeared in public on Friday to monitor the Covid situation which has deteriorated as 5000 cases are being reported in Assam every day now.

The BJP-led alliance had retained power by winning 75 of the 126 seats.