The Assam BJP will contest the upcoming state Assembly polls with its alliance partners, the party's core committee decided on Friday. The party also set a target for the alliance to win 103 out of the 126 seats.

The core committeee meeting which was attended by BJP national general secretary (organisation) B L Santhosh, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and state party president Dilip Saikia, also decided that the BJP would contest the elections on 'issues of all-round development of the state and core ideological commitments on which the party stands', a release issued later said.

Currently, the ruling BJP has 64 MLAs, while its allies, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) has nine, the United People's Party, Liberal (UPPL) seven and the Bodo Peoples' Front (BPF) three.

Before the meeting, the chief minister attended the concluding session of the meeting of the newly appointed coordinators and in-charges of all 126 assembly constituencies and discussed strategies for disseminating information about government initiatives and achievements among the public.

Sarma said the state government will take "strict measures" to curb polygamy and what he described as "love Jihad" and "land Jihad." The CM also vowed to continue the demolition of houses belonging to Bengali-speaking Muslims, whom he accused of illegally occupying "government land, forest land, professional grazing reserve (PGR) and village grazing reserve (VGR) land, tribal belts, and satra lands."