Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Ram Madhav on Sunday said the Congress has forged an “unholy alliance” with perfume baron Badruddin Ajmal’s All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) to stop the BJP in Assam.

He also said that the BJP and its allies would win 20 of the 25 Lok Sabha seats across eight States in the northeast and that the saffron party would form its first elected government in Arunachal Pradesh. The BJP has ruled the frontier State twice after takeovers — once for eight months in 2003 and since December 2016.

“The Congress is clueless about which direction they want to steer the country. People also do not know whether they are fighting for India or for Pakistan. This has made the party enter into an unholy alliance with the AIUDF,” Mr. Madhav said in Guwahati.

The BJP is contesting 18 of the 25 seats in the northeast while its State-specific allies are contesting the rest. Except for the Asom Gana Parishad and Bodoland People’s Front in Assam, the other allies have opted out of an electoral understanding with the BJP in most of the seats in the other States.

Mr. Madhav also clarified on the BJP’s decision not to let Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma contest the Lok Sabha polls. “He has been given a bigger responsibility of steering the party in the northeast, and we needed his time and energy for the candidates in the region,” he said.