Confident yet cautious: BJP bets on polarisation, Centre's schemes in Assam

As for the vastly tweaked CAA, the BJP has been curiously silent about it after it provoked adversarial reactions

It is evident by now that Sarbananda Sonowal, chief minister of Assam, can be denied a second term in office if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies win the Assembly polls. “The BJP has a well-laid rule — the parliamentary board will decide on chief minister after the elections,” stated Himanta Biswa Sarma, senior Assam minister and key northeast strategist of Amit Shah, Union home minister. Sarma, who has been re-nominated from the Jhalukbari constituency, scotched rumours that he would be the king this time. But, political sources in Guwahati maintained Sarma, and not Sonowal, had a bigger