GUWAHATI: Eyeing the Assembly elections due early next year, the BJP-led Assam government on Monday presented a populist budget to woo tea garden workers, lower-income groups, farmers, and youth.

one of the world’s top tea drinking nations and a major exporter of Assam and Darjeeling tea, would seem on the face of it to make little sense. Yet, Ryutaro Matoba, who grows Sayama tea here ...

15,000 assistance for 1.5 million pregnant plantation workers to ease financial burdens and stated that "The BJP government is developing Assam and also serving the tea farmers here. The income ...