Amit Shah to visit Santal, Himanta Biswa Sarma predicts end of Hemant Soren's tenure

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to visit Santal today. 

Sarma expressed his belief that this Parivartan Yatra will mark the end of Hemant Soren's tenure.

He further stated that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will once again form the government in Jharkhand.

Launching a frontal attack on Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday accused him of hosting Indian Union of Muslim League (IUML) leaders but “showing disdain” for BJP leaders including Amit Shah.

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A delegation of IUML comprising party MPs ET Mohammed Basheer, MP and Haris Beeran, besides MLA Mohammad Bashir, met Soren at his residence here during the day. A CMO statement said it was a “courtesy meeting”.

Sarma, who is also the BJP’s co-incharge of assembly elections in Jharkhand that are scheduled later this year, took a jibe at Soren saying he has no hesitation in extending a warm welcome to a delegation of the “Muslim League” founded by Muhammad Ali Jinnah but has objection to BJP leaders coming to his state.

The Jharkhand government had earlier this month urged the EC to ask Union Home Minister Amit Shah to issue an advisory to BJP leaders Sarma and Shivraj Singh Chouhan to desist from “instigating” communal tension in the state for “narrow political gains” by misusing the official machinery.