Shribhoomi correspondent independent morning:
After forming the government by winning 102 out of 126 assembly seats in Assam, now Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma has set the target of winning all 126 seats next time. Addressing a public meeting held in Shilchar, the Chief Minister said that he was already confident that Assam would get better results. He said, “When I went to Bengal, I had said that there will be a double century in Bengal and a century in Assam. Out of 126 seats in Assam, we got 102 seats.
We will do better work in the next five years, so that next time we can win 126 out of 126 seats. This will be possible only when we do good work for the public.” He raised the issue of connectivity as the biggest problem of Barak area. The Chief Minister said that the East-West Corridor is a good plan, but due to landslides in the area, road connectivity is sometimes disrupted. That is why he had promised to connect Barak with better road connectivity.
The Chief Minister said that as per his promise, the work on the road project connecting Barak to Guwahati is nearing commencement and the contract for it has also been awarded. He said that Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has recently announced to extend this route beyond Guwahati to entire Siliguri. With this, Barak area will be directly connected to Siliguri. The Chief Minister said that the Government of India is going to spend about Rs 82 thousand crore on the construction of Barak-Siliguri Greenfield Corridor. He described it as a big project towards connectivity and development of the area.