Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is in a bit of a Hamletian dilemma-to retire or not to retire from active politics.

His wife Dolly wants him to quit politics and lead a family life, but the septuagenarian chief minister is no mood to heed to her request and is instead adopting a belligerent posture at home.

"My wife wants that I should retire from politics. But I turned down her plea with a firm no," Gogoi told journalists here yesterday.

The chief minister said he still has miles to go before he takes a bow from politics.

"I have several unfinished works to do before I retire. I cannot retire now without eliminating communalism, with forces trying to sow seeds of hatred in Assam," he said.

Having been in the Congress party for more than four decades, Gogoi says he was greatly perturbed by political parties in the just concluded assembly elections trying to divide the cosmopolitan Assamese society on religious lines.

"The political parties who tried to polarise society on communal lines should realise that the soil in Assam is not that fertile for such nasty seeds to grow," the chief minister said.

A former union minister of state in the ministry of food processing, Gogoi became chief minister of Assam in 2001 after the Congress party stormed to power routing the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) by winning 71 of the 126 assembly seats.

The two-stage elections for the Assam assembly concluded Monday. Counting of votes begins May 11.

So what are Gogoi's plans for the next month until election results are announced.

"I will go to office from tomorrow (Wednesday) and start working on unfinished development works. The code of conduct is still in force, but it does not prevent us from continuing with our work. We cannot announce any new schemes, but there is no bar on working on works that we started before," he said.

Gogoi he has some other plans as well - to write his autobiography.

"I will write a book and highlight what I have seen during my Congress days starting from Indira Gandhi, the emergency period, and also touch upon present day politics, including some spicy things happening in Assam's politics," Gogoi said.