‘Citizenship Bill Helped Us’: Himanta Sarma on BJP’s NE Sweep

The BJP-led NDA alliance had won 17 of the 25 seats in the North East. The party’s Himanta Biswa Sarma explains how.

Himanta Biswa Sarma, the BJP’s chief electoral strategist for the North East and eastern regions, says that the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) issue acted in favour of the party in Assam, Tripura and West Bengal.

“When our opponents made CAB a political issue, everyone who supported CAB came forward to support the BJP. If you go by the arithmetic, in Bengal and Assam, a majority of people supports CAB... so it helped us in those regions,” he said, while speaking to CNN-News18.

#ModiRajya | @himantabiswa in conversation with @Zakka_Jacob. https://t.co/i36kF8GryA

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