Guwahati, March 8: Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday said the BJP and alliance will win this election as he believes people of the state are happy with the developmental works the incumbent government has done over the last five years.

“We are winning this election and we are forming the next government in the state. That’s all. It’s very clear. The people of Assam are very much happy in our last five-year performance. The security of life and property, peace in the state has been provided by the BJP-led government in Assam,” Sonowal told media at an event in Guwahati on Monday.

“The people feel that BJP has taken Assam to new heights in line with development,” Sonowal added.

This is the first time Sonowal spoke after the BJP released the candidate list with him representing his incumbent constituency Majuli in the Assembly elections the first phase of which will begin on March 27.

On the achievements of the incumbent government in the last five years, Sonowal said, “We had promised of pollution-free, developed Assam, corruption-free Assam, terrorism-free Assam, infiltrator-free Assam… we have worked on all of these points with sincerity and this has made the people to believe that BJP has worked for the people of Assam.”

Sonowal was inaugurating Assamese version of the biography of Union home Minister Amit Shah translated by his cabinet minister Sarma

Sonowal’s comment also comes at a time when a debate on who would be the next Chief Minister if BJP is voted to power, has gained momentum especially his cabinet minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who had earlier denied to contest, has also been allotted candidature.

The oppositions had been up on throats asking about the roles of Sarma whom they touted to be “second chief minister of Assam”.

Training salvos at the oppositions, Sonowal said, “The people of Assam has witnessed the ill ideology of opposition parties. They have pushed the situation to chaos. The parties which lack a proper ideology and goal can never ensure development.”