Assam Assembly polls: A look at CM Sonowal's achievments in past 5 years

In poll-bound Assam, the biggest northeastern state in terms of population, life for citizens has changed a lot in the last five years, the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data tells us. In 2016, when the state last had elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power, dislodging a Congress government led by stalwart Tarun Gogoi. The 2015-16 NFHS tells us that in some areas, life was already good — 75 per cent of girls above the age of 6 were already going to school and the BJP government has added little on that score. People were already getting