Guwahati: The Congress candidate in Gauhati Lok Sabha constituency, Manash Borah has reasons to feel a special candidate of the party precisely for two reasons.
First, he was virtually a choice of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi given that he was nominated as party candidate after he had won the primary round – a pilot project of Rahul Gandhi for selection of party candidates through voting of party office bearers at local level.
Secondly , no lesser a person than the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is a voter in his constituency and the VVIP is scheduled to come to vote here on April 24 next, most likely in the company of his wife Gursharan Kaur.
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and his wife are scheduled arrive here on April 24 to cast their votes in the third and final phase polling in Assam.
Dr Singh has been a Rajya Sabha Member for Assam since 1991 and his official records and affidavits mention his permanent address as : House Number 3989, Nandan Nagar, Ward No 51, Sarumataria, Dispur, Kamrup (Metropolitan) district,Assam,Pincode:781006.
Dr Singh is a tenant in the residential complex of Dr Hemo Prabha Saikia, a senior Congress leader and former minister in Assam besides being the widow of Late Hiteswar Saikia, former chief minister of Assam.
It was Hiteswar Saikia who rented out the particular house to Dr Singh in 1991 when he was elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam for the first time.
City senior superintendent of police A P Tiwari informed that Special Protection Group(SPG) personnel were to oversee security arrangement for the Prime Minister’s visit to the city to cast his vote here. Dr Singh is likely to be accompanied by her wife Gursharan Kaur.
The Prime Minister and his wife have their votes at the polling booth number 156 at Dispur Government High School under Gauhati Parliamentary constituency. They are supposed to return to Delhi same day after casting their votes.
Dr Singh and his wife had cast their votes here in 2009 Lok Sabha polls but did not come to vote during Assembly election of 2011.