The Assam BJP on Sunday, 24 August, rubbished Congress leader and former Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's claim that former Supreme Court Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi could be the BJP's chief ministerial candidate in the next year's Assembly polls, and instead praised CM Sarbananda Sonowal.
Tarun Gogoi, who the chief minister’s post for 15 years until the BJP came to power in 2016, told the media in Guwahati on Saturday that the former CJI could be the BJP's chief ministerial candidate in the polls, likely to be held in April-May next year.
“Some people utter a lot of hollow matter when they grow very old, and we will like to put Tarun Gogoi’s statement in that category. There is not an iota of truth in what Tarun Gogoi told the media,” Assam Bharatiya Janata Party President Ranjeet Kumar Dass said.