Overview
- Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma confirmed the Prime Minister will inaugurate the Kumar Bhaskarvarman Setu connecting Guwahati and North Guwahati.
- Modi will also open a temporary IIM Guwahati campus and hand over 100 Centre-funded electric buses to the state.
- He will address BJP functionaries at Guwahati’s Khanapara field, with three workers from about 25,000 polling booths expected to attend, and there will be no public meeting at the inaugural programme.
- A possible stop in Dibrugarh remains unconfirmed pending final schedule decisions in the coming days.
- This will be Modi’s third visit to Assam in under three months as the BJP rolls out video vans for pre-poll outreach and nears a seat-sharing formula with allies.