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GUWAHATI: Listing two priorities for the new government in Assam, Chief Minister-to-be Sarbananda Sonowal said on Saturday that sealing of the borders with Bangladesh in two years and completion of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) will be done to put an end to infiltration."We have promised to the people of Assam that the two key priorities of our government would be complete sealing of the border and completion of NRC before the elections."Therefore, we are obliged to doing them and show to the people that we are sincere to our promises," he told PTI in an interview.A product of the student movement against 'foreigners' in the 80s, Sonowal, who steered the BJP to victory in the elections, and his party had made infiltration one of the major issues in the poll campaign.He was asked how he intended to seal the Indo-Bangladesh border, an issue he had spoken about on Thursday soon after his party romped home in the election."Indo-Bangladesh border is not completely sealed, specially in riverine areas through which infiltration take place. We want that it must be completely sealed so that there is zero infiltration from across the border," 53-year- old Sonowal said.He said the other priority would be the early completion of the NRC. "The updation process of NRC has been going on. It is getting delayed but we want to complete it as early as possible."The total length of the Indo-Bangladesh border is 4,096 km of which 263 km falls in Assam. In the Assam stretch, 224 km has already been fenced while around 40 km is riverine.As per Supreme Court orders in 2014, the final updated NRC was to be published on January 1, 2016 and verification of the records was to be completed by last September. However, the verification is still on as on date though it has achieved 97 per cent levels across the state.The final NRC could pave the way for deportation of the illegal immigrants, who entered Assam after 1971 - a key poll promise of the BJP in the state.On the election victory, Sonowal gave the credit to his party and its alliance partners for "taking together all ethnic groups, giving them respect and representation"."Also acceptance by the people here of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's development model of directly linking Centre's development programmes with the states," he said.Asked if anti-incumbency and voter fatigue were factors for his alliance's historic victory, the BJP state president said, "There was no anti-incumbency factor. It was the rampant corruption and lack of development during the last 15 years of Congress rule that was another cause for our victory".Asked if the BJP's alliance with regional parties Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and Bodo Peoples Front (BPF) was a plus point for the saffron party, Sonowal said, "Of course people accepted that and gave us their mandate. We took along with us the tea tribes, the various ethnic groups across the state with us"."We did not leave anybody. We even went to those pockets in Barak Valley where there are ethnic groups of just 2000 people. We talked with them, gave them respect and representation. People want their culture and identity to be protected", he said.On minority support to the BJP during the just-concluded hustings, he said, "Both indigenous Assamese and other minority communities supported us and they contributed to over 20 per cent of our vote share"."They came out in large numbers in support of us and their support here (Assam) was perhaps the highest in India. Because of their support our minority candidate won", he said.The BJP government would take oath on May 24 here at the Khanapara Field in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sonowal said.According to BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav, the mandate was for protecting the identity of the people of Assam and also for development.