Exit polls reflects BJP's Mission 84 strategy for Assam: Sonowal

GUWAHATI: BJP chief ministerial candidate Sarbananda Sonowal said that exit polls prediction reflected the Mission 84 strategy the saffron party had set two years ahead of the assembly polls for Assam. After Lok Sabha polls, which gave the BJP all time high seven out of 14 parliamentary seats, the saffron party devised the Mission 84 to garner absolute majority in the 126 seat assembly polls this year.
Although the Mission 84 was devised for making BJP the single largest party and form the government on its own, the saffron party had to stitch alliance with Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) and other tribal outfits ahead of the assembly polls.Fear of division of votes was one of the factors that prompted the BJP to have alliance with the parties even as there was dissension among the saffron party’s ranks against the poll pact.
“We have all along been confident that this time we will have a government by BJP and its partners. The mandate was for BJP-led coalition government. The exit polls have only given credence to people’s wish for change in political dispensation,” Sonowal said here on Tuesday, on the sidelines of a function for the release of a case study on South Asian Games 2016.
On AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta’s recent remark that Sonowal as chief ministerial candidate was not discussed among coalition partners, Sonowal ruled out any differences within the alliance.
“We all worked as a team, and will continue to work as a team,” Sonowal responded.
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s ‘mission 84’ meant winning 84 out of 126 assembly seats in Assam in 2016 polls.