new delhi amid speculation over the next chief minister of assam bjp leaders from the state himanta biswa sarma and sarbananda sonawal separately met party president j p nadda and union home minister amit shah on saturdayboth incumbent assam cm sarbananda sonowal and health minister himanta sarma were on friday called to new delhi by the bjp central leadership apparently to discuss the leadership issue of the next governmentthough both leaders from assam reached delhi on saturday morning it was sarma who reached naddas residence first to meet him and bjp general secretary organisation b l santhosh they were later joined by amit shahafter sarma left sonowal met the bjps top brasstalks related to formation of the next government in assam and who will be the chief minister dominated the meetingssonowal who belongs to assams indigenous sonowalkachari tribals and sarma the convenor of the north east democratic alliance both are contenders for the top post of the assam governmentthe bjp had not announced a chief ministerial candidate before the assembly polls in assamin the 2016 assembly polls the bjp had projected sonowal as its chief ministerial candidate and won forming the first saffron party government in the northeastthis time the party has been maintaining that it would decide who would be the next chief minister of assam after the electionsin the results announced for the 126member assam assembly last sunday the bjp won 60 seats while its alliance partners agp got nine seats and uppl six