In Assam, Advance Booking Of Hotels For Congress Amid Poaching Fear: Sources

Congress leaders on Saturday met at a hotel in Guwahati for a closed-door meeting with their candidates.

The Congress has booked a few hotels across Assam to "insulate" its candidates from possible poaching by the BJP ahead of the declaration of Assam Assembly elections results on May 2, party sources said on Saturday. Congress leaders on Saturday met at a hotel in Guwahati for a closed-door meeting with their candidates. Sources said that the party has been planning to keep the candidates somewhere in Guwahati, Tezpur and Kaziranga on April 22 and not let them be in touch with the world beyond. However, senior Congress leader Jitendra Singh dismissed the reports of hotel bookings and said that their alliance will "get a big majority".