BJP to contest all 40 seats in Mizoram: Amit Shah
The QuintAizawl, Oct 17 Mizoram would celebrate Christmas under the BJP-led state government, said Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah on Wednesday, adding the party would field candidates in all the 40 Assembly seats of the state where polls are due on November 28. Shah, who came here after holding meetings with Assam party leaders and state Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal in Guwahati, said the BJP would field candidates in all the 40 constituencies on its own without alliance with opposition Mizo National Front or the ruling Congress. "If BJP forms government in Mizoram, all 100-plus Central flagship programmes would be implemented successfully," said the BJP leader who also inaugurated BJP's state office, Atal Bhavan, in Aizawl. Mizoram BJP state president Prof John V Hluna, Nagaland Deputy Chief Minister Y. Patton, Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma accompanied Shah.