All the BJP heavyweights in the state of Assam including chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma are busy campaigning for their ally, the regional party of Asom Gana Parishad and Bodoland Peoples’ Front. Organising party meetings and addressing public rallies, the BJP leaders have asked all its party workers, supporters and voters to make absolute efforts to make their ally parties’ candidates win this election. The reasons are simple — to fulfil BJP’s mission 20 in Northeast and to oust its prime opponent Congress from the region.

Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal asserted, “The ruling alliance of BJP-AGP-BPF will win 12 out of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in Assam. In the entire northeast, the BJP and its ally parties under North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) will win 20 seats. Congress will fail miserably.” In the Northeastern region, there are 25 Lok Sabha seats up for grabs. After winning the Assam state polls in 2016, the BJP floated the NEDA with the regional parties of the northeast states aiming to make the region Congress-free.