Sonowal seeks people's support in KAAC poll

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today urged the people to support the ruling BJP in the upcoming Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) elections and announced a series of development programmes for the area.
Addressing a public rally here, Sonowal urged the people to support BJP in the KAAC election as they did during the state assembly poll and elected four candiadtes of the party in Karbi Anglong district.
The government was fulfilling the poll promises of development, the chief minister said adding he had laid the foundation stone of a 100-bed hospital at Bokajan, a government college and a BEd college at Hamren.

He assured electrification of all villages in the area and assured that all roads in the district will have tar topping. The Doboka-Dimapur (Nagaland) road would be made four lane.
BJP Assam unit president Ranjeet Kumar Das told reporters that his party has written to the Election Commission to announce the KAAC poll date as Gauhati High Court had given this month as the deadline for holding it.
Twentyfive local organisations have been holding protest rallies in the district for the past one month demanding correction of the voters' list and deletion of the names of non indigenous people.