Bhubaneswar, May 9 -- Ahead of the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Odisha, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday exuded confidence that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will form government both in the State and the centre.

While addressing a huge public meeting at Kalimela in Malkangiri as the star campaigner of BJP, Biswa Sarma urged the people of the constituency to vote for BJP both in the Assembly and Lok Sabha segments to facilitate a double-engine government to accelerate the development process in the State.

Biswa Sarma assured that Bengali teachers will be appointed across the State wherever Bengali people are there. "I came to know that a large number of tribal and Bengali people live in this district. Once ...