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GUWAHATI: PM Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah addressed a record 18 rallies in three months across Assam and projected BJP as the sole protector of Assam’s identity. But all that and many more visits from dozens of other central and state leaders did not quite help the saffron party to better its tally than the last election.
BJP had started the campaign for Assam with ‘Mission 100 plus’ seats.
This is the first time a non-Congress government is being formed for the second successive front in the state. Coincidentally, the second term of Congress under Tarun Gogoi in 2006 had also seen a reduced strength, below the halfway mark, which saw the entry of BPF into the post-poll alliance. Congress jumped back with absolute majority in its third term in 2011 on its own but kept BPF by its side.