Assam Chief Minister Emerges As BJP's Poster Boy For Election Campaigns
NDTV
Mr Sarma, in the eyes of his supporters of course, comes with the right credentials for the role.
The BJP's most prominent face from the North East, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, has emerged as the party's new poster boy for election campaigning, capturing eyeballs as its first star campaigner from the region in far away Gujarat and Delhi.
Be it the revocation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, imposition of Uniform Civil Code (UCC), PFI ban, Ram Janmabhoomi temple issue, communal angle to the recent killing of a girl by her live-in partner or the attack on Congress and his bete noire Rahul Gandhi, Mr Sarma has left no stone unturned to push forward assertively the right-wing party's key agenda in poll-bound Gujarat where the BJP has ruled for the last 27 years, barring a brief period of President's Rule.
Mr Sarma, in the eyes of his supporters of course, comes with the right credentials for the role.
The passing of the Cattle Protection Act, calling for specific policy measures for slowing down minority population growth, closing down of government Madrasas and turning them into general schools, demolition of madrasas following arrest of teachers with alleged terror links, sealing of the 'Miya' (Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam) musuem, among others has brought him to the fore of polarisation politics, according to experts.
