An all-party meeting called by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Sunday decided to proceed unitedly as 'Team Assam' to tackle the challenges posed by COVID-19 and offer gratitude to the frontline personnel in this battle, including the health workers and police.
Apart from the BJP and its ruling alliance partners AGP and BPF, all major opposition parties such as the Congress, AIUDF, CPI(M), CPI, CPI (ML), NCP, RJD and the Trinamool Congress put forward suggestions in combatting the coronavirus outbreak.
"Hosted an all-party meeting in Guwahati and discussed our united fight against #COVID19. I thanked them for their participation and valuable suggestions. We are all together in this fight. #TogetherWeCan," Sonowal said in a tweet after the meeting.
Talking about the outcome of the discussion in another tweet, he said, "I am glad to share that leaders of all the political parties have taken a joint resolution to thank frontline health workers, security forces and all those who are leading our fight against #COVID19."
"In this hour of crisis, we are together as #TeamAssam, serving the people."
Addressing reporters, Gogoi said, "We all assured to fight the coronavirus battle together. However, we are fighting two battles at this moment -- one for our physical health and another for our economic health. We have to win both the battles."
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