Guwahati(Assam), Dec 26 : Union Home Minister Amit Shah in on a three-day visit to the north east and arrived here on Friday night.
During his visit to poll-bound Assam, the senior BJP leader will meet the newly elected members of the state party core committee and the ruling coalition of the Bodoland Territorial Council, Sarma, the state finance minister told reporters.
A 23-member delegation of the United Peoples Party Liberal-BJP-Gana Suraksha Party combine will also meet him to discuss various issues, Sarma said.
Delegations of the BJP’s ruling alliance partner, Asom Gana Parishad and the Joint Coordination Committee of the Rabhas and representatives of the Gana Shakti Party are o scheduled to meet the union home minister, Sarma said.
Shah’s official programme in Assam includes laying the foundation stone of the Rs 186 crore beautification programme of the birthplace of Vaishnav saint Srimanta Sankardeva at Batadrava in central Assam.
Sarma said that the land surrounding the ‘sattra’ (Vaishnav monastery) has been freed of encroachers and the state government wants to develop it on the lines of Amritsar’s Golden Temple.
The union home minister will lay the foundation stone of one of the country’s largest medical college and hospital to be set up at a cost of Rs 860 crore in Guwahati by amalgamating the Mahendra Mohan Choudhury Hospital and the Kalapahar COVID Care Hospital, he said.
The two hospitals will be connected by three new flyovers.
Shah will do the same for 11 law colleges in different parts of the state and inaugurate the third phase of the ‘Asom Darshan’ scheme to protect the places of worships of different faiths, Sarma said.
In the third phase 8000 ‘naamghars’ (Vaishnav prayer and community halls) will be given Rs 2.5 lakh each.
(With PTI inputs )
